picaroon

Example Sentences

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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 Mills, Weymer Jay

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

The Athenæum necrologist accorded her half a column of obituary, in which she was described as "this pretty, picaroon woman, whose name can never be omitted from any chronicle of Bavaria."

From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Wyndham, Horace

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 Stoddard, W. O.

But if one is insane, if one has inherited one's grandfather's characteristics as idler, loafer, lounger, dreamer, lover or picaroon, what then?

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben