picaroon

Example Sentences

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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 Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Nares quotes several instances of "picaro" and "picaroon" from our early writers.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

MacRae threw open his hatches and counted the salmon as they came flipping off the point of a picaroon.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

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 Mills, Weymer Jay

On the way from Genoa to Messina Irving's vessel was boarded by a piratical picaroon.

From Washington Irving by Boynton, Henry Walcott