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Definition of Roupy
1. hoarse [adj ROUPIER, ROUPIEST] : ROUPILY [adv] - See also: hoarse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roupy
Literary usage of Roupy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. You who Can Help: Paris Letters of an American Army Officer's Wife, August by Mary Smith Churchill (1918)
"... TO RoUPY "From here on was the terrible destruction of the fruit trees, all
cut and neatly cut, and so systematically that none escaped." S^ page 207. ..."
2. Western Poultry Book by A. Basley (1912)
"Consequence, about half of them (586 all told) came down with bad colds.
Some developed roupy catarrh, others eyes swelled close shut. ..."
3. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"Roup occurs in a peculiar sense, either as denoting an incessant cry, or perhaps
hoarseness of voice, as the adj. roupy is now used. ..."
4. The Numismatic Chronicle by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"In my last travels a roupy went at Surat for 49 ... you have for the roupy."
Cowries, too, were subject to similar laws of distance from the Maldives. ..."
5. The Franco-German War, 1870-71 by John Frederick Maurice, Wilfred James Long (1900)
"During the whole of the morning General von Goben had been watching from roupy
the contest of the 16th Division on the (German) right of the Somme, ..."
6. The Fifth Army in March 1918 by Walter Shaw Sparrow (1921)
"Attack after attack was shattered, and the many Germans who clustered into the
quarry on the northeast of roupy had terrible experiences, bullets ripping ..."
7. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"... but having given them another roupy, and made them believe I was ... to them
another roupy to ..."
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