Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
rascal .
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Examples
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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
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Happy the few who have only to reproach themselves with believing that these rascals were less 'rascaille' than they proved! ”
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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
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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.”
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` ` 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. ''
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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. ''
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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.
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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.
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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
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'I will not be a slave to the rascaille,' said Henry.
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