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Ruptuary

Ruptuary \Rup"tu*a*ry\ (?; 135), n. [Cf. Roturier.] One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier. [R.]

The exclusion of the French ruptuaries (``roturiers,'' for history must find a word for this class when it speaks of other nations) from the order of nobility.
--Chenevix.

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ruptuary

n. (context obsolete rare English) One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier.