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contrabandist|ˈkɒntrəˌbændɪst|
[ad. Sp. contrabandista: see contraband and -ist.]
One who carries on contraband traffic; a smuggler.
1818Todd, Contrabandist, he who trafficks illegally. 1828Landor Wks. (1853) I. 332/1 Plunderers and contrabandists. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. V. 52 It was proved that one of the contrabandists had provided the vessel.
fig.1839Maginn in Fraser's Mag. XX. 257 One of the..approved tricks of the plagiary trade..which gives the contrabandist all the credit of the appropriated passage. |