corsair

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merirosvo A French privateer, especially from the port of St-Malo
A privateer or pirate in general
1840, (w), (w), http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=254475515&tag=Dickens,+Charles,+1812-1870:+Barnaby+Rudge,+1840&query=corsair&id=DicBarn Chapter 34.

"If I had been born a corsair or a pirate, a brigand, genteel highwayman or patriot -- and they're the same thing," thought Mr. Tappertit, musing among the nine-pins, "I should have been all right. But to drag out a (si) ignoble existence unbeknown to mankind in general -- patience! I will be famous yet."