flibustier

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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A French buccaneer; a French pirate in the Americas.

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"1845, Eugene Sue, The Female Bluebeard: Or, the Adventurer, tr. from French, publ. by W. Strange, page 209. I have even, to the great terror of Angelina, commanded it as a flibustier captain, in a certain encounter with a Spanish pirate, in which I came off victorious."

Borrowed from French flibustier.

flibustiers (plural)

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