ruptuary
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare roturier.
Noun
[edit]ruptuary (plural ruptuaries)
- (obsolete, rare) One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier.
- 1832, Richard Chenevix, An Essay Upon National Character […] :
- The entire order, indeed, and the very institution itself, received a further humiliation by the elevation of a ruptuary (roturier), Raoul, a goldsmith, to the honors of nobility.