ruptuary

English

Etymology

Compare roturier.

Noun

ruptuary (plural ruptuaries)

1. (obsolete, rare) One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier.
   • 1832, Richard Chenevix, An Essay Upon National Character […] :

     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.