rascaille

English

Noun

rascaille (plural rascailles) (obsolete)

A rascal.
A rabble or mob.

Old French

Etymology

Diminutive of earlier rascler, from Vulgar Latin *rasicāre (“to escape”), from Latin rasus.

Noun

rascaille f (oblique plural rascailles, nominative singular rascaille, nominative plural rascailles)

rabble; mob

Descendants

French: racaille
→ Middle English: rascaile, raskaile, raskaille, raskel, raskayl, rascayl, rascalle
- English: rascal
- Yola: raskail

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (rascaille, supplement)

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