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- noun Plural form of
contrabander .
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They be all of them tolerable good men, except five, who have been condemned to be transported, and two to be hung, but as they be contrabanders like, the Government have sent down orders for ’em to be sent on board your ship.”
A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman
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