Pruce vs Spruce - What's the difference?
pruce | spruce |
(obsolete) Prussian leather
* 1700 , John Dryden, Fables, Ancient and Modern: Palamon and Arcite , lines 30–31:
Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees from the genus Picea , found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
(uncountable) The wood of a spruce.
(used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.
(obsolete) Prussia leather; pruce.
* E. Phillips
(comparable) Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).
* 1919 ,
* 2012 , The Economist, 13th Oct 2012,
To arrange neatly; tidy up.
) To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
To tease.
Spruce is a descendant of pruce.
In obsolete terms the difference between pruce and spruce
is that pruce is prussian leather while spruce is prussia.As an adjective spruce is
smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).As a verb spruce is
to arrange neatly; tidy up.pruce
English
Noun
(-)- Some for Defence would Leathern Bucklers use, / Of folded Hides; and others Shields of Pruce .
References
* ----spruce
English
Noun
(en-noun)- That spruce table is beautiful!
- Spruce , a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather.
See also
* (Spruce) * (Picea)Adjective
(er)- He had great neatness of person, and he continued to wear his spruce black coat and his bowler hat, always a little too small for him, in a dapper, jaunty manner.
Plessey returns: Chips with everything
- The two clean rooms, where chips are made, are sprucer than a hospital theatre.