picaroon
Example Sentences
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That there picaroon that we sunk to-day was as large a craft as I ever heard o' their usin'.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
Nares quotes several instances of "picaro" and "picaroon" from our early writers.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
For Fortune changeth as the moon To caravel and picaroon.
From Songs from Books by Rudyard Kipling
He, the picaroon, companion of rogues and small marauders, had seen many and diverse love affairs.
From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Geraldine Bonner
Nothing but the great need for secrecy had prevented more extended inland hospitalities to the brave Americanos who had destroyed the picaroon.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
