Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Middle English form of rascal.

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Examples

  • Happy the few who have only to reproach themselves with believing that these rascals were less 'rascaille' than they proved!

    Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • Happy the few who have only to reproach themselves with believing that these rascals were less 'rascaille' than they proved! ”

    Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals Byron, George G 1854

  • See yon tall man in the black mail, who is busied marshalling the farther troop of the rascaille yeomen — by Saint Dennis, I hold him to be the same whom we called

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Bracy; “this comes of reviling saints and angels, and ordering images of holy things and holy men to be flung down on the heads of these rascaille yeomen.”

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • ` ` And a brave addition to the kingdom of Satan, '' said De Bracy; ` ` this comes of reviling saints and angels, and ordering images of holy things and holy men to be flung down on the heads of these rascaille yeomen. ''

    Ivanhoe 1892

  • See yon tall man in the black mail, who is busied marshalling the farther troop of the rascaille yeomen --- by Saint Dennis, I hold him to be the same whom we called _Le Noir Faineant_, who overthrew thee, Front-de-Buf, in the lists at Ashby. ''

    Ivanhoe 1892

  • Old Daygo he is a rascaille, an old scamp; but he serve me vairy true, and it vas I tempt him vis _monnaie_ to keep my secrete after he show me ze cavern.

    Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days George Manville Fenn 1870

  • When I would have bidden them go home, the one brawler asks me insolently, ` Wherefore? 'the other smote me with his sword, whereupon the whole rascaille set on me, and as Master Alderman Headley can testify, I scarce reached his house alive.

    The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • When I would have bidden them go home, the one brawler asks me insolently, 'Wherefore?' the other smote me with his sword, whereupon the whole rascaille set on me, and as Master

    The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • 'I will not be a slave to the rascaille,' said Henry.

    The Caged Lion Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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