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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prude/pruːd/

▶noun a person who is easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity.

– derivatives
prudery noun.

– origin C18: from Fr., back-form. from prudefemme, fem. of prud'homme ‘good man and true’.

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