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Webster 1913 Edition


Ruptuary

Rup′tu-a-ry

(?; 135)
,
Noun.
[Cf.
Roturier
.]
One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier.
[R.]
The exclusion of the French
ruptuaries
(“roturiers,” for history must find a word for this class when it speaks of other nations) from the order of nobility.
Chenevix.