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- noun Plural form of
progue .
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Examples
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Donald looked at them longingly, but our haste brooked no delay, and besides, as he put it to me later, "It's a puir town, but, after a 'said, better than a wheen lousy cattle, for I've come by a fine pair o' progues for a twa-three bawbees."
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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"'Er nainsell wad rather' ave a new pair o 'progues," said he.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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But I gave a few shrewd progues with the lance to show that I did not choose my will to be overridden, and presently was given room for manoeuvre.
The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne 1905
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