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- noun Plural form of
rakeshame .
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Examples
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What the deuce did the woman mean by inviting one of London's most notorious rakeshames to dinner with Miss Ashmore?
The English Witch Chase, Loretta 1988
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Bishop Montagu, _Diatribae_ (1621), 'Such roysterers and rakeshames as Mars is manned with.' p. 269 _whipping Tom_.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II Aphra Behn 1664
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