Pruce

Etymology

From Middle English Pruce ("Prussia") (whence also spruce), from new Latin, from a language, probably Old Prussian; for more, see Prussia. Compare French Prusse.

Full definition of pruce

Noun

1. (obsolete) Prussian leather
• 1700, John Dryden, Fables, Ancient and Modern: Palamon and Arcite, lines 30–31:Some for Defence would Leathern Bucklers use,
  Of folded Hides; and others Shields of Pruce.