rappee

American  

[ra-pee] / ræˈpi /

noun

1. a strong snuff made from dark, rank tobacco leaves.

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rappee British  

/ ræˈpiː /

noun

1. a moist English snuff of the 18th and 19th centuries

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Etymology

Origin of rappee

1730–40; < French râpé grated (past participle of râper ); see rape ³

Example Sentences

Here Mr. Sterne was interrupted by a monk of the Order of St. Francis, who stepped into the room, and begged us all to take a pinch of his famous old rappee.

From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace

He would understand, by analogy, the pungency of other things, besides Irish blackguard or Scotch rappee.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

For myself, sir," said the Colonel, snuff-box open in hand, for he had been surprised with the rappee between his fingers, "I am ready to go on.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.

Râpé became in English "rappee," familiar in snuff-taking days as the name for a coarse kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker tobacco leaves.

From The Social History of Smoking by Apperson, George Latimer

The same little grey homunculus that filled my "prince's mixture" years before, stood behind the counter at Lundy Foot's, weighing out rappee and high toast, just as I last saw him.

From The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 2 by Lever, Charles James