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 A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
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
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 James Fenimore Cooper
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
For Fortune changeth as the moon To caravel and picaroon.
From Songs from Books by Rudyard Kipling
