picaroon
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In this peculiar style, which may perhaps be regarded as an irregular descendant of the picaroon romance, Murger has no rival; and he is also, though on no extensive scale, a poet of great pathos.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
"Better than I did," says I, speaking on impulse, "for sure you are the strangest picaroon that ever cheated the gallows."
From Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol
Oh, don't pause, sister!" squeaked terrified Julie, "here's where that picaroon in the black mask was wont to hide.
From The ghosts of their ancestors by Weymer Jay Mills
The commander was a calm-tempered man, accustomed to disappointment, or he might have joined with some of the younger officers in their expressions of disgust at having lost the picaroon.
From The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley by William Henry Giles Kingston
I stopped 'em back there a ways with my picaroon, when they sung out, an' they walked down here on the side planks.
From The Spinner's Book of Fiction by Various
