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English
Etymology
From French (tabac) râpé (“grated (tobacco)”), past participle of râper (“to grate”), from Old French rasper "to scrape"; of Germanic origin.
Noun
rappee (countable and uncountable, plural rappees)
- (archaic, chiefly historical) A dark, coarse, strongly flavoured snuff.
1766, George Colman, David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, a Comedy. , London: T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, ; R Baldwin, ; R. Davis, ; and T Davies, , →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, page 58:Thou art like my rappee here, [takes out his box.] a moſt ridiculous ſuperfluity, but a pinch of thee novv and then is a moſt delicious treat.
1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XXXV, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1837, →OCLC:‘Why, it is difficult, sir, I confess,’ said the tall footman. ‘It may be done by degrees, Sir. Coffee is the best practice. I carried coffee, Sir, for a long time. It looks very like rappee, sir.’
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