Lexicographical Neighbors of Roupet
Literary usage of Roupet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1893)
"I forgot that you cannot smoke here, roupet; but you shall have them all the ...
Come, come, roupet, make yourself invisible." The eyes of the girl were on ..."
2. Complete Glossary to the Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns: With Upwards of by John Cuthbertson (1886)
"roupet, Hoarse, as with a cold. Roup, hoarseness.—Bailey. ... It has been said
that Burns is "guilty of a pleonasm " in My roupet Muse is hearse. ..."
3. Cumner's Son: And Other South Sea Folk by Gilbert Parker (1910)
"I forgot that you cannot smoke here, roupet; but you shall have them all the ...
Come, come, roupet, make yourself invisible." The eyes of the girl were on ..."
4. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"S. VIII. Rounded. With laden sighs, and solemn-rounded sentence, Add. sp.
by Fontenelle. roupet ... Alas I my roupet Muse is ..."
5. The Poetry of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1896)
"LINE I. ' Alas my roupet Muse is ... roupet' is said of a vocal state which
suggests the utterance of a chicken with a cold. STANZA in. LINE i. ..."
6. The Complete Works of Robert Burns (self-interpreting) by Robert Burns (1886)
"Alas, my roupet Muse is hearse. Row, or rou'e, to roll, to wrap; to row with oars.
Rousing, great. In mony a torrent doun his snaw-broo rowes. ..."
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