Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
picaroon .
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Examples
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Thou mayest by trick, chicane, and false colours, thou who art worse than a pickeroon in love, overcome a poor lady so entangled as thou hast entangled her; so unprotected as thou hast made her: but consider, how much more generous and just to her, and noble to thyself, it is, to overcome thyself.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
minerva commented on the word pickeroon
Thou mayest by trick, chicane, and false colours, thou who art worse than a pickeroon in love, overcome a poor lady so entangled as thou hast entangled her...
Belford to Lovelace, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
December 11, 2007
minerva commented on the word pickeroon
See picaroon.
December 19, 2007