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flibustiers

flibustiers is the plural of flibustier.

Meaning of flibustier

Noun

flibustier (plural flibustiers)

  1. (obsolete) A French buccaneer; a French pirate in the Americas.
    • I have even, to the great terror of Angelina, commanded it as a flibustier captain, in a certain encounter with a Spanish pirate, in which I came off victorious.1845, Eugene Sue, The Female Bluebeard: Or, the Adventurer, tr. from French, publ. by W. Strange, page 209.

Questions about flibustiers

What is flibustiers the plural of?
Flibustiers is the plural of flibustier.

Words near flibustiers in the dictionary

  1. flibbertigibbety
  2. flibberty-gibbet
  3. flibberty-gibbets
  4. flibbets
  5. flibustier
  6. flibustiers
  7. flic
  8. flic-flac
  9. flic-flacs
  10. FLICE
  11. flicflac

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