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单词 swartrutter
释义

swartruttern.

Forms: Also 1500s swartroter, swart(e) rutter, swartrytter, swarthrutter.
Etymology: < early modern Dutch swartrutter (in Kilian swerte ruyters plural): see swart adj. and rutter n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswartˌrutter.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
One of a class of irregular troopers, with black dress and armour and blackened faces, who infested the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > irregular > specific
cateran1371
swartrutter1557
rapparee1690
sebundi1782
franc-tireur1808
Makhzan1854
1557 in Cal. MSS Marquis of Salisbury (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1883) I. 144 A number of our Swartroters took Scheney.
1558 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 94 The performaunce of A Maske of swart~rutters.
?1571 tr. G. Buchanan Detectioun Marie Quene of Scottes sig. Diijv Put on ane lose cloke, sic as the Swartrytters weare.
1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia i. sig. C3v Like a Swartrutters hose his puffe thoughts swell, With yeastie ambition.
1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 128 The novelty of these barbarous faces, and of those great lubberly Swa [r] t-rutters, might easily have affrighted us.
1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 81 Fitter for Swartrutters and Ruffians, then for true Penitents.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Swart-Reyter, (Dutch) a Horseman with black Armour.]
1900 F. W. Maitland in Fisher Biog. (1910) 122 The English government's one idea of carrying on a big war..was that of hiring German ‘swart~rutters’.

Derivatives

swartrutting adj. Obsolete behaving like a swartrutter.Apparently an isolated use.
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1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. D4 Making no brawles to haue wounds, as swartrutting veluet breeches dooth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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