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vrijbuiter
Dutch · 1500s
"one who freely takes plunder"
literally free booty-taker, from vrij (free) and buit (booty)
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freebooter
English · 1560s
"a pirate or lawless plunderer"
settled as the English word for a pirate or plunderer
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