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Definition of Rafflers
1. raffler [n] - See also: raffler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rafflers
Literary usage of Rafflers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Camilla, Or, A Picture of Youth. by Fanny Burney (1814)
"... and. .age, without honour, to chaf- tife and degrade the other ?" ,. AH the
rafflers were now arrived, ex- ,Cept-Mrs. ..."
2. Browning's England: A Study of English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke (1908)
"... these rafflers. 3. Strafford here the first, With the great army at his back!
4. No doubt. I would Pym had made haste: that's Bryan, hush — The gallant ..."
3. London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and by Henry Mayhew (1851)
"... rafflers." The "ornaments" now most generally told or raffled are Joy and
Grief (two figures, ..."
4. A Record of the Metropolitan Fair: In Aid of the United States Sanitary by New York Metropolitan Fair, 1864 (1867)
"They are bits of playful fence, but they showed to the would-be-rafflers, as well
as a serious encounter could have done, that there was ..."
5. Shakspere's predecessors in the English drama by John Addington Symonds (1884)
"Cruelty ad Avarice, who gloat with delight over their memories of the Marian
persecution, are described as rafflers, that is bullies. ..."
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