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cutpurse
noun as in pickpocket
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Feb. 10th, at two after none I toke a cutpurse taking my purse out of my pocket in the Temple.
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Here and there, a cutpurse slunk through the crowd, seeking his own type of bargain—an unwary victim.
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A Cutpurse is of the surest trade; for his work is no sooner done, but he hath his money in his hand.
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The light-fingered art must have degenerated in Toledo since the day of that clever cutpurse of the "Exemplary Tales."
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Moll Cutpurse, whose intelligence and audacity were never bettered, was among the bravest of the Elizabethans.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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