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Definition of Rappee
1. Noun. Strong snuff made from dark coarse tobacco.
Definition of Rappee
1. n. A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.
Definition of Rappee
1. Noun. A dark, coarse, strongly flavored snuff. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rappee
1. a strong snuff [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rappee
Literary usage of Rappee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The spiritual Quixote: or, The summer's ramble of mr. Geoffry Wildgoose [by by Richard Graves, Geoffry Wildgoose (1808)
"X. ' Character of Colonel rappee. As Wild^oose, though in his travelling ...
Amongst the rt^t, there was a Colonel rappee, an officer in the Guards, ..."
2. The Novelist's Magazine (1785)
"... not only daz'led her with his fécond -hand finery, but he fawned, and flattered,
and cringed ; he taught her to take rappee, and presented her with a ..."
3. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"The introduction of rappee ... bad a great predilection for rappee ... from his
pocket full of rappee. The King call a threatening look upon him ;, \<ben ..."
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