Word of the Day: RAKESHAME


ETYMOLOGY
from rake (vb.) + shame (n.).; perhaps suggested by rake-hell

EXAMPLE
“…An vgly monster of men, with a face as grieslie as a Beare, came vnto him, accompanied with a traine of rakeshames…”

From: Honours Conquest: wherein is conteined the famous hystorie of Edward of Lancaster 
By Henry Roberts, 1598

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