Ruffian

  • 41The Ruffian on the Stair — is a play by British playwright Joe Orton and was first performed on BBC radio in August 1964. It is an unsympathetic yet comedic one act portrayal of working class England, as played out by a couple and a mysterious young man who toys with their …

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  • 42Le Ruffian — Données clés Durée 110 minutes Pour plus de détails, voir Fiche technique et Distribution Le Ruffian est un film franco canadien de José Giovanni sorti en 1983 …

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  • 43RUFIAN OU RUFFIAN — n. m. Entremetteur, débauché …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 44Border Ruffian — In the decade leading up to the American Civil War, pro slavery activists infiltrated Kansas Territory from the neighboring slave state of Missouri. To abolitionists and other Free Staters, who desired Kansas to be admitted to the Union as a free …

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  • 45ark ruffian — noun Rogues who, in conjunction with watermen, robbed, and sometimes murdered, on the water, by picking a quarrel with the passengers in a boat, boarding it, plundering, stripping, and throwing them overboard, etc. A species of badger …

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  • 46Le Ruffian —    Film d aventures de José Giovanni, avec Lino Ventura, Bernard Giraudeau, Claudia Cardinale.   Pays: France   Date de sortie: 1982   Technique: couleurs   Durée: 1 h 45    Résumé    Un baroudeur, aidé de quelques amis, tente de récupérer des… …

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  • 47border ruffian — noun Usage: often capitalized B&R : one of a group of proslavery Missourians during the period from 1854 until the beginning of the Civil War who used to cross the border into Kansas to vote illegally, make raids, and intimidate the antislavery… …

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  • 48rufian — ruffian [ ryfjɑ̃ ] n. m. VAR. rufian • XIVe; it. ruffiano, du rad. germ. hruf « croûte », pour qualifier, par métaph., la rudesse, la grossièreté ♦ Vx ou littér. Entremetteur, souteneur. « une espèce de grand voyou, commissionnaire, marchand de… …

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  • 49fian — ruffian rufian …

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  • 50tearaway —  Ruffian. Criminal (usu. violent) …

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