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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Rake

A libertine. A contraction of rakehell, used by Milton and others.

And far away amid their rakehell bands
They speed a lady left all succourless.

Francis Quarles.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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