Crossword-Solution: RIFFRAFFS
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZAEECM
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eruption
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Sentences with RIFFRAFFS (5)
For three months the "Riffraffs"--so they proudly called themselves--rheumatic, deaf, palsied, halt, lame, and one or two nearly blind, had represented "the cause," "the standing army," "le grand militaire," to the inflammable imaginations of this handful of simple rural people of the lower coast.
When the Riffraffs had paraded up and down the river road no one had smiled, and if anybody realized that their captain wore the gorgeous pompon of a drum-major, its fitness was not questioned.
Should the Riffraffs fire upon the fleet, surely guns would answer, else what was war? She glanced at her full pail, and then at the row of cannon beside her.
Farragut's fleet and "the honor of the Riffraffs" were forgotten in the presence of this frail embodiment of death.
Raising the hat, the captain turned and solemnly addressed the crowd: "My countrymen," he began, and his voice trembled, "the Riffraffs are disbanded.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2003).