Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
That which is merely superficial and does not indicate the true nature or value of a person (or thing).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, uncountable
Examples
- 1880, Benjamin Disraeli, letter to Lord Salisbury, cited in Richard Faber, Beaconsfield and Bolingbroke, London: Faber and Faber, 1961, p. 19, [...] I have been profoundly convinced that the greatness and character of this country depended on our landed tenure. All the rest I look upon, and have ever looked upon, as leather and prunella.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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.
