picaroon

Updated: August 28, 2026

Upon the tables however lay piles of silver, and behind them the ready croupiers administered. I observed wretched devils playing here, whose whole standing kit would not have brought a picaroon at vendue.

Tyrone Power - Impressions of America: During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.

Then you may see she is anchored in such a way that but one of the guns from the battery can touch her; whereas, had she been a real timid trader, she would naturally have got into a place where, if a straggling picaroon should come into the port, he would have found her in the very hottest of the fire."

James Fenimore Cooper - The Red Rover