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rapparee en · NOUN

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Etymology

from Irish rapaire, variant of ropaire (“cutpurse”).

Meanings

1. (Ireland, archaic, historical) A bandit or brigand.
   • And then he would relate stories of banshees, and robberies, and ghosts, and hair-breadth escapes, and 'rapparees,' and adventures in the wars of King James, which he heard told in his nonage by the old folk, long vanished, who remembered those troubles. 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

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