ruptuary

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Etymology

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Compare roturier.

Noun

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ruptuary (plural ruptuaries)

  1. (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.
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