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Raffles   /rˈæfəlz/   Listen
Raffles

noun
1.
British colonial administrator who founded Singapore (1781-1826).  Synonyms: Sir Thomas Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.





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... aggressive methods of disposing of them; the same varieties of fancy work, knit, embroidered, drawn, quartered and crocheted; the same display of canned goods and home-made jellies and feminine apparel; the same raffles and "drawings" and "chances" by which churches have long conducted their clerical lotteries; the same side-shows and the same appeal to the social world to come and mingle with the ...
— An American Suffragette • Isaac N. Stevens


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