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
He doesn’t sail the seas in search of sunken ships and pirate booty.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2023
A gorgeous point that was enough for Scotland to top their Nations League group and get all that booty that comes with it, like a winner on Bullseye.
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2022
Assyrian ivory carving of a man leading an antelope by the horns, as booty to enrich a treasury.
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2022
When the Shoshone finally obtained guns—they traded with their linguistic cousins, the Nermernuh, who took the weapons as booty from defeated Spaniards—open warfare broke out.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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