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Definition of Rapparees
1. rapparee [n] - See also: rapparee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rapparees
Literary usage of Rapparees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue by Thomas William Rolleston, Stopford A Brooke (1900)
"But I'll go bail he'll break no more while Truagh has gallows-trees, For why ?
he met one lonesome night the awful rapparees ! ..."
2. Fifty Years of English Song: Selections from the Poets of the Reign of Victoria by Henry Fitz Randolph (1887)
"... THE IRISH rapparees. A PEASANT BALLAD OF 1691. RICH Shamus he has gone to
France and left his crown behind — Ill luck be theirs, both day and night, ..."
3. Fifty Years of English Song: Selections from the Poets of the Reign of Victoria by Henry Fitz Randolph (1887)
"... THE IRISH rapparees. A PEASANT BALLAD OF 1691. RICH Shamus he has gone to
France and left his crown behind — III luck be theirs, both day and night, ..."
4. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"... near Clonmel, a party of our men had killed 30 rapparees, with their captain;
and that another party of our men had routed another party of ..."
5. The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century by James Anthony Froude (1888)
"... and subscribe the statutory declaration against Tran- substantiation.1 On the
breaking up of James's army the Tories and rapparees, from which it had ..."
6. The Manuscripts of S. H. Le Fleming, Esq., of Rydal Hall by Daniel Fleming, Stanley Hughes Le Fleming, James Arthur Bennett, Richard Ward (1890)
"Great applications are made for the Earl of Clancarty in the Tower, who declares
he never headed the rapparees in burning any town or house. ..."
7. History of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Edward Alfred D'Alton (1906)
"The other posts east of the Shannon were held by the rapparees.12 In some instances
they were soldiers who had fought abroad, in others dispossessed ..."
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