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Word: brigandish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...fellow-student is not inaccurate for his entire career As he grew older, his tubercular thinness tended toward emaciation. Always he delighted to emphasize his eccentricities. His queer foreign face, bright-eyed and animated, peered forth under a battered straw hat. He was wont to wear velvet jackets, brigandish cloaks, black shirts, loose collars? the whole as shabby and disreputable as any tramp's. Thus garbed, he delighted in the astonished gaze of the passersby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critical Inspection of a Myth | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

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