booty

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Important works of art from Bohemian lands were destroyed by iconoclasts during the Hussite Wars of the 15th century, and much was taken as booty during the Thirty Years’ War in the 17th.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Watching Will Ferrell in prison booty shorts showing off his pasty white legs feels like a crazy way to soothe the Sunday scaries.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2025

Archaeologists believe the swords were hidden by Judean rebels after they were seized from the Roman army as booty.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2023

Records of just one of Thutmose III’s campaigns in Canaan note that the booty included more than two thousand horses and twenty thousand sheep, almost two thousand goats, wheat,

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

It has an enormous hippo booty made of sofa-cushion foam, and my crocodile head is going to open and close on hinges, just like Michael’s.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina