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pruinare

pruinare [ML < CL pruina+-are] , to cover with frost (in quot. fig.). prava solent pravi fari, que non meruisti / hec non judicio sed iniqua mente pruinant D. Bec. 389; ob collata bona plures mala sepe pruinant Ib. 778; non referas vel agas quicquam quod triste pruinet / patrono, famulis, sint famina gesta modesta Ib. 1454; si sis ingenuus, mendicus, panniculosus / veste pruinosa si te fortuna pruinet Ib. 1580.

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