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 Weymer Jay Mills
His helper forked up salmon with a picaroon.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
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 Ben Hecht
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 Horace Wyndham
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
