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Word: picaroon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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That premier of journalists, Defoe, when misfortune cased his sturdy limbs with the tiobers of the pillory, invoked his muse and made some cash thereby. And Francois Villon was a poet though a picaroon. So Gerald Chapman, writing heroically unheroic couplets in his cloistered corner of Connecticut, has precedent preponderous--even more precedent than the verse demands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHANSON CHAPMAN | 3/6/1926 | See Source »

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