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Meaning of flibustier | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A French buccaneer; a French pirate in the Americas.

obsolete

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

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