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Meaning of RUPTUARY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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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