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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Cf.

Roturier

One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier.

[R.]

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.

ruptuary ‎(plural ruptuaries)

(obsolete, rare) One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier.
- Richard Chenevix
  The entire order, indeed, and the very institution itself, received a further humiliation by the elevation of a ruptuary (roturier), Raoul, a goldsmith, to the honors of nobility.