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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin prora (“prow”). Doublet of prow.
Noun
[edit]prore (plural prores)
- (poetic, obsolete) The prow or fore part of a ship.
- 1715, Homer, [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book II”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
- These in twelve galleys with vermilion prores
Beneath his conduct sought the Phrygian shores..
- 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 6.XIII:
- As the tall ship, whose lofty prore / Shall never stem the billows more […] !
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[edit]prore f
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