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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A ribald.
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- noun Obsolete form of
ribald .
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Examples
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Finally, when the voluptuosity of his flesh surmounted him, and he might not defend himself ne his members, he bit off a piece of his tongue and spit it in her visage, which always enticed him to lechery by touching and by kissings, and so he voided the temptation fleshly, and the ribauld also, and deserved to have laud and victory.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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2268: Wak't by the Larke, hath rouz'd the ribauld Crowes,
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III. x.10 (193,6) Yon 'ribauld nag of Aegypt] The word is in the old edition _ribaudred_, which I do not understand, but mention it, in hopes others may raise some happy conjecture.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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