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Rapparee   Listen
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Rapparee  n.  (Written also raparee)  A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary.






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"Rapparee" Quotes from Famous Books



... see it's some of those scoundrelly French prisoners who escaped yesterday? That vagabond of a boy perhaps that you pampered off and were feeding with our good English provisions. Now you see the consequences. The ungrateful rapparee—Oh no, but that's Irish, ...
— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn



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