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raparee

raparee is the alternative form of rapparee.

Meaning of rapparee

Noun

rapparee (plural rapparees)

  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

Forms of raparee

pluralraparees

Questions about raparee

What is raparee the alternative form of?
Raparee is the alternative form of rapparee.

Words near raparee in the dictionary

  1. rapanone
  2. Rapanui
  3. Rapaport
  4. Rapaportian
  5. Rapaports
  6. raparee
  7. raparees
  8. rapaseed
  9. rapastinel
  10. rapateaceous
  11. rapatronic

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