Tutour vs Putour - What's the difference?
tutour | putour |
* 1688 , Stephen Penton, quoted in Reminiscences of Oxford , Clarendon Press, 1892;
As nouns the difference between tutour and putour
is that tutour is while putour is (obsolete) a keeper of a brothel; a procurer.tutour
English
Noun
(en noun)page #39:
- I was entred there when the first great difficulties arose betwixt the old King and Parliament, and as much care was taken as was usual in the choice of a tutour'?; but, as I came to understand, there was a certain Master of Arts who was to be the next ' tutour of course, and so the next gentleman who entred was to be recommended to him in his turn?; it happened I was the man, who came with tolerable parts and learning at the rate of a gentleman.