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Definition of Bustiers
1. bustier [n] - See also: bustier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bustiers
Literary usage of Bustiers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Maryland Historical Magazine by Maryland Historical Society (1909)
"The Hollanders called them " Zee Rovers" ; the French and Spanish "Fili-bustiers,"
the English, "Adventurers" or " Free-booters." The sack of Panama by the ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1816)
"In the volume before us, more than the half of the contents is applied to the
history of the Buccaneers and Fle- bustiers. These partisans originated in ..."
3. Recent Centralizing Tendencies in State Educational Administration by William Clarence Webster (1896)
"... the governors of the West India islands'—a measure which was most oppressive
to the fli- bustiers, with whom the governors had usually been in league. ..."
4. Sketches of the Campaign in Northern Mexico: In Eighteen Hundred Forty-six by Luther] [Giddings (1853)
"... been justly denounced as "the vicious relic of a barbarous age," and is fostered
by a spirit but little better than that of the old Fli- bustiers of ..."
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