contrabandist
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of contrabandist
From the Spanish word contrabandista, dating back to 1810–20. See contraband, -ist
Example Sentences
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The contrabandist supplies had been of a very limited nature, and now they were over she suffered a more than common misery of reaction from excess.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
Spain is, of all European countries, the most helplessly exposed to contrabandist operations.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
Our Dutch friend Gist was, correctly speaking, a contrabandist.
From Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41 by Unknown
They are peculiar to her clime, and are as much before the brigand of Italy, the contrabandist of Spain, or the cut-purse of France—as her sailors are before all the rest of the world.
From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison
She went down to Morainville, and there, thanks to the devotion of Guillaume Carpentier and of his sons, she was carried to England in a contrabandist vessel.
From Strange True Stories of Louisiana by Cable, George Washington
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