picaroon

Example Sentences

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Nares quotes several instances of "picaro" and "picaroon" from our early writers.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Now, I knew how many a half dozen was, but I didn't have the slightest idea what a picaroon looked like nor what it was used for.

From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Johnson, Clarence Edgar

MacRae threw open his hatches and counted the salmon as they came flipping off the point of a picaroon.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

But I never believed in them as devoutly as I believed in the destruction of that infernal picaroon.

From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore

I may make an imbroglio sometimes, but, for getting out of a scrape, I would back myself against any picaroon in the Levant; and that is saying a good deal.'

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield