Crossword-Solution: RAPPEE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rappee | v. | A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “RAPPEE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Kind of snuff. | 1 answer |
| Pungent snuff | 1 answer |
| Snuff made from tobacco leaves | 1 answer |
| Strong snuff | 1 answer |
| moist English snuff of the 18th and 19th centuries | 1 answer |
| SNUFF powder, type of | 2 answers |
| snuff | 10 answers |
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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
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with RAPPEE (5)
Rasped tobacco, _ tabac rape, _ called by mortals _ rape _ or rappee: there is no doubt about it; and the new King himself noticed her, and hurled back a look of due fulminancy, which could not help the matter, and was only lost in air.
The traitor not only dazzled her, with his second-hand finery, but he fawned, and flattered, and cringed--he taught her to take rappee, and presented her with a snuff-box of papier mache--he supplied her with a powder for her teeth--he mended her complexion, and he dressed her hair in the Paris fashion--he undertook to be her French master and her dancing-master, as well as friseur, and thus imperceptibly wound himself into her good graces.
But we have these ladies to think of, Messieurs, and--” he paused to apply the rappee to his nostrils--“and we must exert ourselves to save them, however disagreeable the course we may be compelled to pursue.
That he might profit as much as possible by this situation, he went up and accosted every person in the pit, with whom he ever had least communication, whispered and laughed with an affected air of familiarity, and even bowed at a distance to some of the nobility, on the slender foundation of having stood near them at court, or presented them with a pinch of rappee at White's chocolate-house.
Good night for to-night--OH! I forgot--pray send me some caff`e au lait: the Duc de Picquigny(33) (who by the way is somebody's son, as I thought) takes it for snuff; and says it is the new fashion at Paris; I suppose they drink rappee after dinner.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1964–1988).