flibustier

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noun

A French buccaneer; a French pirate in the Americas.

OriginFrench flibustier →
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Meanings

nounflibustier (plural flibustiers)

plural flibustiers

  1. obsoleteA French buccaneer; a 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.

Origin

  1. Frenchflibustier
  2. Englishflibustier

Borrowed from French flibustier.

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APA

flibustier. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flibustier

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flibustier,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flibustier.

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