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Three Curious Words

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
May
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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Filibuster, freebooter and buccaneer are words curiously interrelated. The French and the English sea adventurers once made commoa cause against Spanish settlements in the new world, and all three of these words came in time to describe the rnde sea soldiers who despoiled the Spanish main and the towns upon the coasts of the Spanish possessions. Filibuster is said to be the result of an attempt to make a French word of freebooter, and the English borrowed it back from the French because it sounded less frankly brutal than the English word. Buccaneer was originally French in forrn, and it meaut at first one who hunted the boucan or wild cattle and hogs of the West Indies; then one who made jerked meat of their flesh, and finallv, because this meat was used to nrovision the shiDS of the sea rovers, a filibuster or

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News