picaroon
Example Sentences
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The skipper peered beneath his palm and swore by the Great Horn Spoon: — "'Fore Gad, the Chaplain of the Fleet would bless my picaroon!"
From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling
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
I may make an imbroglio sometimes, but, for getting out of a scrape, I would back myself against any picaroon in the Levant; and that is saying a good deal.'
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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 Clarence Edgar Johnson
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
