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PRUDHOMME

Definition: PRUDHOMME

PRUDHOMME

Noun

1. A trustworthy citizen; a skilled workman. See Citation under 3d Commune, 1.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PRUDHOMME" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Etymology: Prudhomme \Prud*homme"\, noun. [French expression prud'homme. Compare to Prude.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: PRUDHOMME

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Literature

Prudhomme A Mons. Prud'homme. A man of experience and great prudence, of estimable character and practical good sense. Your Mons. Prudhomme is never a man of genius and originality, but what we in England should term a "Quaker of the old school."
The council of prud'hommes. A council of arbiters to settle disputes between masters and workmen. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: PRUDHOMME

Specialty definitions using "PRUDHOMME": Burd. (references)

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Image Slideshow: PRUDHOMME

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: PRUDHOMME

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John Pym / J.F.E. Prudhomme sc. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ouverture des Etats-généraux á Versailles (5 Mai 1789) / peint par Couder ; gravé par Prudhomme ; dessiné par Landoz ; digraphe et pantographe-gavard. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: PRUDHOMME

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

I have read Prudhomme, I know the Contrat Social, I know my Constitution of the year Two by heart.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Name Usage Frequency: PRUDHOMME

The following table summarizes the usage of "PRUDHOMME" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
PrudhommeLast name1,00012,974
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PRUDHOMME

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

paul prudhomme

69

chef paul prudhomme

52

prudhomme

42

don prudhomme

16

paul prudhomme recipe

9

sully prudhomme

4

don prudhomme snake

3

chef prudhomme

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: PRUDHOMME

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-h-m-m-o-p-r-u"

-2 letters: humored, morphed.

-3 letters: dumper, hummed, hummer, humped, mumped, mumper, poured, romped, rouped, uphroe.

-4 letters: demur, doper, drupe, duper, ephod, ephor, homed, homer, hoped, hoper, horde, humor, modem, mohur, moped, moper, morph, mured, odeum, ouphe, pedro, perdu, pored, proem, proud, prude, rheum, roped, umped, uredo.

-5 letters: demo, derm, doer, dome, dope, dore, dorm, dorp, doum.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-h-m-m-o-p-r-u"
 

+5 letters: pseudomorphism.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PRUDHOMME


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 52 55 44 48 4F 4D 4D 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    .-.    ..-    -..    ....    ---    --    --    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01010010 01010101 01000100 01001000 01001111 01001101 01001101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#85 &#68 &#72 &#79 &#77 &#77 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0055 0044 0048 004F 004D 004D 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

505255384249474739

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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