rapparee

English

Etymology

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

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Noun

rapparee (plural rapparees)

  1. (Ireland, historical or archaic) A bandit or brigand.
    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
      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.

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