- Ruptuary
- Ruptuary Rup"tu*a*ry (?; 135), n. [Cf. Roturier.]
One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
The exclusion of the French ruptuaries (``roturiers,'' for history must find a word for this class when it speaks of other nations) from the order of nobility. --Chenevix. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.