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prussian

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1. prussian - Noun

2. prussian - Adjective

3. Prussian - Proper noun

Meaning

Of or pertaining to Prussia.

A native or inhabitant of Prussia.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have. Florence Nightingale

The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. Henry A. Wallace

At first no one spoke. Boule de Suif dared not even raise her eyes. She felt at once indignant with her neighbors, and humiliated at having yielded to the Prussian into whose arms they had so hypocritically cast her. Guy de Maupassant

Are we opposed to Prussian militarism? ... We have been fighting it since the day the Socialist movement was born; and we are going to continue to fight it, day and night, until it is wiped from the face of the earth. Between us there is no truce-no compromise. Eugene V. Debs

Of all the colors I ordered: the three chromes, the Prussian blue, the emerald, the crimson lakes, the malachite green, all the orange lead, hardly one of them is to be found on the Dutch palette, in Maris, in Mauve or Israels - [all contemporaries of Vincent, Dutch painters of the Hague School. ]. Vincent van Gogh

Prussian Field Marshals do not mutiny. Erich von Manstein

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