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rapparees

rapparees is the plural 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

Questions about rapparees

What is rapparees the plural of?
Rapparees is the plural of rapparee.

Words near rapparees in the dictionary

  1. Rappahannock County
  2. Rappai
  3. Rappaport
  4. Rappaports
  5. rapparee
  6. rapparees
  7. rappas
  8. Rappe
  9. rapped
  10. rapped at
  11. rapped back

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