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† prudˈhomme
Also as Fr. ‖ prud'homme |prydɒm|.
[a. F. prud'homme:—OF. prod(h)ome, oblique case, f. pros, obl. prod, pro, prow a. + om, obl. ome, homme man.
(The nom. appears to have been orig., as in Prov., prozom, prosom, i.e. pros + (h)om; but prosdom, prodom, occur, app. with intrusive d from obl. prodome. Tobler suggests as the orig., nom. pros d'ome, obl. pro d'ome, with prep. de.)]
1. Hist. A man of valour and discretion, a ‘good man and true’; a knight or freeholder who was summoned to sit on the jury or to serve in the king's council.
[1292Britton i. xxxi. §6 Tauntost face jurer xii. des plus leaus prudeshommes qe eux verité presenterount des articles. Ibid. ii. xxvii. §5 Adounc face le viscounte trier xii. prodeshommes [twelve good men. Note. The word prodehomme, as well as the similar..good and lawful man, implied the possession of a freehold]. ]1701Cowell's Interpr., Prodes Homes, this is a Title often given in our old Books to the Barons, or other Military Tenents, who were call'd to the King's Council, and was no more than Discreti & Fideles Homines. 1865Kingsley Herew. vii, The chatelain sent word to Baldwin that the newcomer was a prudhomme of no common merit. 1883W. J. Loftie Hist. London I. v. 128 The ‘prudhommes’ were arrayed at every election, at every hustings, against the lesser folk.
‖2. A member of a French tribunal appointed to decide labour disputes.
1887Pall Mall G. 14 Feb. 14/1 The English law..confounds prud'hommes with arbiters, which is a capital fault. The prud'hommes called on to decide certain particular cases deliver what in reality are judgments. |