flibustier

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  A French buccaneer; a French pirate in the Americas.
 * 2) * 1845, Eugene Sue, The Female Bluebeard: Or, the Adventurer, tr. from French, publ. by W. Strange, page 209.
 * "en"

- I have even, to the great terror of Angelina, commanded it as a flibustier captain, in a certain encounter with a Spanish pirate, in which I came off victorious.

Etymology
From. The spelling with fl- is often considered to be due to influence from or a descendant of that word. The spelling with -s- began to appear in the early eighteenth century.

Noun

 * 1) a filibuster, a pirate

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) a filibuster, a pirate