prudhomme
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun A trustworthy citizen; a skilled workman.
Examples
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She laughed to scorn the notion of a nunnery; and laughed to scorn equally the notion of marrying any knight, however much of a prudhomme, whom she had yet seen.
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At which little Arnulf was as proud as if he had done it himself; and the châtelain sent word to Baldwin that the new-comer was a prudhomme of no common merit; while the heart of the Count of Guisnes became as water; and his knights, both those who were captives and those who were not, complained indignantly of the unchivalrous trick of the Danes, -- how villanous for men on foot, not only to face knights, but to bring them down to their own standing ground by basely cutting off their horses' heads!
Note
The word 'prudhomme' comes from a French word meaning 'man of valor'.
