flibustier

noun

flibustier

noun

Etymology Borrowed from French flibustier.

1

Obsolete A French buccaneer; a French pirate in the Americas.

1845, Eugene Sue, The Female Bluebeard: Or, the Adventurer, tr. from French, publ. by W. Strange, page 209. I have even, to the great terror of Angelina, commanded it as a flibustier captain, in a certain encounter with a Spanish pirate, in which I came off victorious.

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