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
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
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 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
Salmon began to fall on the deck, heaved up on a picaroon.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
