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I was always considered as a rantipole, for whom anything was good enough.— Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
She has given up all those that I used to call her rantipole acquaintance.— Tales and Novels — Volume 03
The fine lady of my day, with the unruffled insipidity of her low spirits (high spirits never came near her) and the imperturbable composure of her smooth insolence, was as unlike the rantipole, racketing high-bred woman of fashion of Sir John Vanbrugh's play as the flimsy elegance of my silver-embroidered, rose-colored tulle dress was unlike the elaborate splendor of her hooped and feathered and high-heeled, patched-and-powdered magnificence, with its falling laces and standing brocades.— Records of a Girlhood
I was in town on Monday; the Duchess of Beaufort graced our loo, and made it as rantipole as a Quaker's meeting.— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
This rantipole hero had for some time singled out the blooming— The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon

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