What is "bankrupts"

Usage examples of "bankrupts".

Jellyby had appeared in the list of bankrupts but a day or two before, and he was shut up in the dining-room with two gentlemen and a heap of blue bags, accountbooks, and papers, making the most desperate endeavours to understand his affairs.

As most of them are bankrupts and thieves, I hope that they will give you reason to repent having harbored them, and that your merchants who employ them will be punished for trusting such rascals.

I have the honor to write to you, you know that Salvaye, Gedeon Petit, and many other rogues and bankrupts like them, are with you, and boast of sharing your table.