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Raddle

verb
1.
Twist or braid together, interlace.  Synonym: ruddle.
2.
Mark or paint with raddle.
noun
1.
A red iron ore used in dyeing and marking.  Synonyms: reddle, ruddle.





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"Raddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... and always have been known, to every town and city which has ever dared to call itself civilized since history began. From Lais in her jewelled litter to Cora in her English landau in the Bois, and on to the shabbiest small slut who flaunts her raddle and her broken feather in the slums of London, the same story is told and the same moral preached. Where is an equal army of men to be found to invite the contumely of their own sex? A woman's virtue is her continence, and a man's virtues are truthfulness and ...
— Despair's Last Journey • David Christie Murray
... said I. "And grant me leave to tell you that a woman of mature years, possessed of an abundant fortune and unassailable gentility, does not by ordinary sneak out of the kitchen door to meet a raddle-faced actor in the middle of the night. 'Tis, indeed, a circumstance to stagger human credulity. Oh, believe me, madam, for a virtuous woman the back garden is not a fitting approach to the altar, nor is a comedian an appropriate companion there at ...
— Gallantry - Dizain des Fetes Galantes • James Branch Cabell


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