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Contrabandist   Listen
noun
Contrabandist  n.  One who traffics illegally; a smuggler.





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"Contrabandist" Quotes from Famous Books



... entered upon and carried on in order to display his remarkable qualities. He could assume the character of Spaniards of every degree and station, so as to deceive the most acute of those whom he delighted to imitate. In the posada of the village he was hailed by the contrabandist or the muleteer as one of their own race; in the gay assemblies he was an accomplished hidalgo; at the bullfight the toreador received his congratulations as from one who had encountered the toro in the arena; in the church he would converse with the friar upon the number ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie


Words linked to "Contrabandist" :   outlaw, arms-runner, criminal, moon curser, moon-curser, smuggler, felon, gunrunner, rumrunner, contraband, crook, coyote, runner, malefactor


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