rappee
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rappee
1730–40; < French râpé grated (past participle of râper ); see rape 3
Example Sentences
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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
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 finished and took his snuff with zest, seeing that it was still rappee, and handed me the box with great composure.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.
"She thanked Mr. Warrington, in tones so hollow and tragic, that he started back, and must have upset some of his rappee, for Macbeth sneezed thrice."
From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace
In the course of time, she became the wife of one worthy of her in every respect—their lovely children often sportively carrying off the ponderous box of brown rappee, and yet Uncle Budge never frowning.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 by Chambers, William
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