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flibustier

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Borrowed from French flibustier.

noun flibustiers

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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@misc{flibustier_2026,
  title = {flibustier},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/flibustier},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}