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Rapparee

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Noun
  1. 1
    A bandit or brigand. Ireland, archaic, historical

    "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."

Etymology

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

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