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leather and prunella

noun

Etymology

With reference to leather and prunella (materials used for making shoes and apparel), from a passage in Alexander Pope’s 1734 poem “An Essay on Man”: “What differ more (you cry) than Crown and Cowl?” / I’ll tell you, Friend: a wise Man and a Fool. / You’ll find, if once the Monarch acts the Monk, / Or Cobler-like the Parson will be drunk, / Worth makes the Man, and want of it the Fellow, / The rest is all but Leather or Prunello.

Definitions

  1. That which is merely superficial and does not indicate the true nature or value of a…

    That which is merely superficial and does not indicate the true nature or value of a person (or thing).

The neighborhood

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