Etymology

flibustier

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Today it means: A French buccaneer; a French pirate in the Americas. Full definition →

French flibustier
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromflibustier
  2. English todayflibustier

Borrowed from French flibustier.

Words from the same roots

Frenchflibustier all →

filibuster

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.