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plues

plues is the plural of plue.

Meaning of plue

Noun

plue (plural plues)

  1. (historical) The value of a full-sized beaver skin.
    • Twelve and a half pieces of trade goods brought in 416½ plues in beaver and an assortment of other peltry, in addition to over 370 plues in provisions. (A plue was the value of a full-sized beaver skin.)2001, Lloyd Keith, North of Athabasca, page 47

Proper noun capitalized: Plues

Plues

  1. A surname.

Questions about plues

What does plues mean?
Plues means a surname.
What is plues the plural of?
Plues is the plural of plue.
What part of speech is plues?
Plues is a proper noun.

Words near plues in the dictionary

  1. plucots
  2. Plude
  3. pluderhose
  4. Pludes
  5. plue
  6. plues
  7. pluff
  8. pluff mud
  9. pluffed
  10. pluffiness
  11. pluffing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plues (page history and authors); Plues (page history and authors); plue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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