rappee
Noun
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Noun
rappee
- A dark, coarse, strongly flavored snuff.
- 1766, George Colman & David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, Act iv, Scene 2.
- Thou art like my rappee here, [takes out his box.] a moſt ridiculous ſuperfluity, but a pinch of thee now and then is a moſt delicious treat.
- 1771, Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker, Penguin Classics, 1985, p.191:
- The fellow wears a solitaire, uses paint, and takes rappee with all the grimace of a French marquis.
- Q en
- 1766, George Colman & David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, Act iv, Scene 2.
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