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archpirate en · NOUN

Etymology

From arch- + pirate.

Meanings

1. A leader of pirates.
   • Not improbably those foreign aggressors, as they are naturally styled by the then owners — those archpirates, the host of Lochlinn — were invited to assist in resisting the Roman oppressors by natives who, sooner than submit, had retreated […] 1873, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire:
   • […] he says a man might deem there were as many archpirates as there were oars. 1869, William Barnes, Early England and the Saxon-English:

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