Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river rising in southwest Ukraine and flowing about 885 km (550 mi) generally southeast along the Romania-Moldova border to the Danube River.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An exclamation of contempt or indignation.
- A Middle English form of
proud .
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Examples
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"Prut," said one-eyed Hans, with a grin, "the Baron is too big a fly to see such a little gnat as I; but wolf-hounds or no wolf-hounds, I can never go hence without showing thee the pretty things that I have brought from the town, even though my stay be at the danger of my own hide."
Otto of the Silver Hand Howard Pyle 1882
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"Prut," said the Baron, "thy foolish fears" But he laid his rough, hairy hand softly upon the Baroness 'head and stroked her yellow hair.
Otto of the Silver Hand Howard Pyle 1882
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"Prut," said the Baron, "methought the abbot would have had enough of the blood of old days in his veins to have taught thee what is fitting for a knight to know; art not afeared?"
Otto of the Silver Hand Howard Pyle 1882
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"It was Chiznu-Prut, more than any other figure of the New Wave, who freed his people's poetry from the monotonous Ø-æ-ç-århyme scheme of the past," noted Barbara Wexford-Miluski, a professor of comparative literature at The College of Chillicothe, Chillicothe, Ohio.
Vieru Chiznu-Prut, Freedonian New Wave Poet, Dead at 84 Con Chapman 2010
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A celebration of Chiznu-Prut's life will be held at the Student Union of the University of Freedonia-Gldansk, where he drank numerous cups of bitter chicory coffee over the years.
Vieru Chiznu-Prut, Freedonian New Wave Poet, Dead at 84 Con Chapman 2010
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Waterways: 424 km (on Dniester and Prut rivers) (2007)
Moldova 2008
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Moldova424 km (on Dniester and Prut rivers) (2007)
Waterways 2008
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The 12. we came to Palsin vpon the riuer Prut. 363
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Prut, tut, said Pantagruel, what doth this fool mean to say?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Prut, tut, said Pantagruel, what doth this fool mean to say?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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