rappee
IPA: rˈæpˈi
noun
- (archaic, chiefly historical) A dark, coarse, strongly flavoured snuff.
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Examples of "rappee" in Sentences
- Likewise, I came to carry a snuff-box, and to consume in secret huge quantities of rappee.
- I have excellent gloves and wash-balls, Madam: rappee, Scots, Portugal, and all sorts of snuff.
- Put new CHRG wid xtree strong padding on. rappee in softee blankee and escort to recobbery room.
- Searching as her own small rappee, she, in spite of her promise, urged Jeanie with still farther questions.
- “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.”
- _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.
- 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.
- I demanded where their rappee was? the good woman pointed to the place; and I took up a scollop-shell of it, refusing to let her weight it, and filled my box.
- “I call it doosid stale old rappee,” says Mr. Brummell — (as for me I declare I could not smell anything at all in either of the boxes.) “Old boy in smock-frock, take a pinch?”
- That he might profit as much as possible by this situation, he went up and accosted every person in the pit, with whom he ever had least communication, whispered and laughed with an affected air of familiarity, and even bowed at a distance to some of the nobility, on the slender foundation of having stood near them at court, or presented them with a pinch of rappee at
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