flibustier
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French flibustier.
Noun
flibustier (plural flibustiers)
- (obsolete) A French buccaneer; an 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.
- 1845, Eugene Sue, The Female Bluebeard: Or, the Adventurer, tr. from French, publ. by W. Strange, page 209.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for flibustier in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch vrijbuiter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fli.bys.tje/
Descendants
- → English: flibustier
- → Spanish: filibustero
- → English: filibuster
Further reading
- “flibustier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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