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单词 contrabandist
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contrabandistn.

/ˈkɒntrəˌbandɪst/
Etymology: < Spanish contrabandista: see contraband n. and adj. and -ist suffix.
One who carries on contraband traffic; a smuggler.
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lorendriver1649
smuggler1661
gentleman1726
contrabandist1813
fair trader1824
spotsman1827
contrabandista1832
1813 Columbian Centinel 28 Aug. 2/3 An expedition has been fitted out below to destroy the nest of French and creole Contrabandists and Pirates.
1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Contrabandist, he who trafficks illegally.
1828 W. S. Landor Wks. (1853) I. 332/1 Plunderers and contrabandists.
a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 52 It was proved that one of the contrabandists had provided the vessel.
figurative.1839 W. Maginn in Fraser's Mag. 20 257 One of the..approved tricks of the plagiary trade..which gives the contrabandist all the credit of the appropriated passage.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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