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Ruptuary

Rup"tu*a*ry\ (?; 135), n. [Cf. Roturier.] One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier. [R.]

The exclusion of the French ruptuaries ("roturiers," for history must find a word for this class when it speaks of other nations) from the order of nobility. --Chenevix.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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