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Middle English
- reatour, riatoure, rietoure, ryetour, ryotour
- riator, riatour, rioter, riottour, ryatour, ryotter, ryouter (Late Middle English)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French rioteor; equivalent to rioten + -our.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌriːutˈuːr/, /ˈriːutur/, /ˈriːətur/
Noun
riotour (plural riotours)
- A rioter; a person who participates in a riot.
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 692-693:
‘Ye, goddes armes,’ quod this ryotour,
‘Is it swich peril with him for to mete?’- ‘Yea, God's arms,’ said this rioter,
‘Is it such peril to meet with him?’
- A person who lives profligately or dissolutely.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- (rare) A robber or looter.
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