picaroon

Example Sentences

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Now, I knew how many a half dozen was, but I didn't have the slightest idea what a picaroon looked like nor what it was used for.

From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Johnson, Clarence Edgar

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 Hecht, Ben

"Hurrah!" arose in a general roar from the crew of the Noank, more than one voice adding, vociferously, the desire that was felt to smash the picaroon.

From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by Stoddard, W. O.

For Fortune changeth as the moon To caravel and picaroon.

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard

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

From Washington Irving by Boynton, Henry Walcott