{
  "raffish":{
    "antonyms":[
      "civilized",
      "cultivated",
      "cultured",
      "genteel",
      "polished",
      "refined",
      "smooth",
      "tasteful",
      "ultrarefined",
      "well-bred"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": marked by a careless unconventionality : rakish":[],
      ": marked by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity or crudeness":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the dowager cringed at the thought of raffish tourists in rough boots tromping all over her Persian rugs",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Stevens begins his account with an introduction to his ancestors, all of whom were show people in the gloriously raffish tradition. \u2014 Ann Hornaday, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
      "Theo Gibson \u2014 a cynical, chain-smoking bachelor who cut a raffish figure on Leverett\u2019s campus \u2014 looms over those years. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
      "There\u2019s a lot of socializing but little distancing in Natchez Under-the-Hill, a strip of bars below the bluffs and a raffish echo of the old river town where musicians like Jerry Lee Lewis once played and partied. \u2014 Andrew Nelson, WSJ , 23 Apr. 2021",
      "But McConaughey has a raffish charm that makes such high jinks forgivable. \u2014 Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com , 21 Apr. 2021",
      "Kevin, an Englishman living in Marseille, agreed to meet with the young Helder, who hoped to learn a few secrets of the trade from a master with a raffish reputation. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Dec. 2020",
      "To set the raffish Bentley apart from its stuffy stablemate Rolls-Royce, the Turbo R's cockpit boasts features like a tachometer and a gear selector that has been moved from the steering column to a much sportier position in the center console. \u2014 Barry Winfield, Car and Driver , 7 July 2020",
      "Young Lendrum\u2019s prowess earned him a raffish preeminence among his peers. \u2014 Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post , 25 Feb. 2020",
      "Max Hardberger, a raffish oceanic repo man, stars in Urbina\u2019s heist story. \u2014 Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post , 12 Sep. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1795, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ra-fish"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "coarse",
      "common",
      "crass",
      "crude",
      "gross",
      "ill-bred",
      "illiberal",
      "incult",
      "insensible",
      "low",
      "lowbred",
      "lowbrow",
      "rough",
      "rough-hewn",
      "roughneck",
      "rude",
      "rugged",
      "tasteless",
      "uncouth",
      "uncultivated",
      "uncultured",
      "unpolished",
      "unrefined",
      "vulgar"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204349",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "raffishness":{
    "antonyms":[
      "civilized",
      "cultivated",
      "cultured",
      "genteel",
      "polished",
      "refined",
      "smooth",
      "tasteful",
      "ultrarefined",
      "well-bred"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": marked by a careless unconventionality : rakish":[],
      ": marked by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity or crudeness":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the dowager cringed at the thought of raffish tourists in rough boots tromping all over her Persian rugs",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Stevens begins his account with an introduction to his ancestors, all of whom were show people in the gloriously raffish tradition. \u2014 Ann Hornaday, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
      "Theo Gibson \u2014 a cynical, chain-smoking bachelor who cut a raffish figure on Leverett\u2019s campus \u2014 looms over those years. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
      "There\u2019s a lot of socializing but little distancing in Natchez Under-the-Hill, a strip of bars below the bluffs and a raffish echo of the old river town where musicians like Jerry Lee Lewis once played and partied. \u2014 Andrew Nelson, WSJ , 23 Apr. 2021",
      "But McConaughey has a raffish charm that makes such high jinks forgivable. \u2014 Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com , 21 Apr. 2021",
      "Kevin, an Englishman living in Marseille, agreed to meet with the young Helder, who hoped to learn a few secrets of the trade from a master with a raffish reputation. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Dec. 2020",
      "To set the raffish Bentley apart from its stuffy stablemate Rolls-Royce, the Turbo R's cockpit boasts features like a tachometer and a gear selector that has been moved from the steering column to a much sportier position in the center console. \u2014 Barry Winfield, Car and Driver , 7 July 2020",
      "Young Lendrum\u2019s prowess earned him a raffish preeminence among his peers. \u2014 Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post , 25 Feb. 2020",
      "Max Hardberger, a raffish oceanic repo man, stars in Urbina\u2019s heist story. \u2014 Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post , 12 Sep. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1795, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ra-fish"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "coarse",
      "common",
      "crass",
      "crude",
      "gross",
      "ill-bred",
      "illiberal",
      "incult",
      "insensible",
      "low",
      "lowbred",
      "lowbrow",
      "rough",
      "rough-hewn",
      "roughneck",
      "rude",
      "rugged",
      "tasteless",
      "uncouth",
      "uncultivated",
      "uncultured",
      "unpolished",
      "unrefined",
      "vulgar"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201738",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "raffle":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a lottery in which the prize is won by one of numerous persons buying chances":[],
      ": to dispose of by means of a raffle":[
        "raffle off a turkey"
      ],
      ": to engage in a raffle":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1543, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "1709, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "circa 1680, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English rafle , a dice game, from Middle French, dice game in which all the stakes can be won in a throw, literally, rake for a fire, from Middle High German raffel rake for a fire, from raffen to snatch, gather":"Noun",
      "probably from French rafle act of snatching, sweeping, from Middle French, rake for a fire":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ra-f\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093406",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "raft":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a collection of logs or timber fastened together in order to be floated downstream (as to a sawmill)":[
        "Soviet loggers commonly float individual logs down rivers to sawmills, rather than lashing them together in rafts .",
        "\u2014 A. Kent MacDougall"
      ],
      ": a floating naturally cohesive mass":[
        "rafts of kelp",
        "Home sites and hunting vantage points would have been undercut by the waves, salt meadows would have become angry shallow seas, and bitter salt and rafts of sea ice would have killed the willow brush and rich sedge meadows of the river deltas.",
        "\u2014 William W. Fitzburg and Aron Crowell"
      ],
      ": a large collection or number":[],
      ": an aggregation of animals (such as waterfowl) resting on the water":[
        "a raft of ducks"
      ],
      ": to convey (something, such as pebbles) in floating ice or masses of organic material":[
        "\u2026 sediment deposits are dominated by rock fragments released by melting ice. Even large rocks are rafted out and then released as the ice melts.",
        "\u2014 M. Grant Gross"
      ],
      ": to make into a raft":[
        "rafted the logs"
      ],
      ": to transport by means of a raft (see raft entry 1 sense 1a )":[
        "Lewis was rafting supplies cross river \u2026 when he dumped his raft, soaking his chronometer.",
        "\u2014 Fred Haefele"
      ],
      ": to transport in the form of a raft (see raft entry 1 sense 1b )":[
        "\u2026 the logs which had been floating in them were swept down the river to the sea before being rafted away to the sawmills.",
        "\u2014 D. A. Bathgate"
      ],
      ": to travel along or across (a river or other body of water) on a raft":[
        "Although the writing is somewhat pedestrian, river rats will enjoy the 27 accounts \u2026 of rafting rivers in 11 Western states.",
        "\u2014 Tom Miller"
      ],
      ": to travel by raft":[
        "rafted across moderate rapids"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun",
      "1667, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
      "1821, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English rafte rafter, raft, from Old Norse raptr rafter":"Noun",
      "alteration of raff jumble":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8raft"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232443",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "raffia":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the fiber of the raffia palm used especially as cord for tying and weaving":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ra-f\u0113-\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Made of raffia , the Tinsley comes in two colors, tan and black, and has a tall crown paired with a wide brim. \u2014 Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country , 15 June 2022",
      "Whether in sturdy canvas or French Riviera raffia (or both), the top market bags add a touch of luxury to your daily essentials lineup now\u2014and later. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 2 June 2022",
      "And this season\u2019s sleeper hit, woven raffia , will bring a summertime spin to this favorite closet staple. \u2014 Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue , 7 June 2022",
      "Crochet, raffia and leather fishnet add a carefree touch to vacation bags and shoes. \u2014 New York Times , 9 May 2022",
      "Then, warm-weather collections introduced platform sandal spin-offs for every moment and dress code: denim and raffia for weekday casual, mixed metallic leathers and lace-up accents for wedding invites or general formality. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "As early as the start of 2022, crochet, raffia and wicker bags were already dominating the fashion radar. \u2014 Bianca Salonga, Forbes , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "The old pavilion retreats under a thick veil of raffia , which shrouds the roofline in a golden veil of soft fronds. \u2014 Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Indoors, people are opting for an outdoor feel: foliage; earthy color schemes; natural fibers; and materials like cane, jute, raffia and wood. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Malagasy rafia":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1850, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-131744"
  },
  "raffia palm":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a large pinnate-leaved palm ( Raphia farinifera synonym R. ruffia ) of Madagascar and tropical Africa valued for the fiber obtained from its petiole":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Both bamboo and raffia palm trees are fast-growing crops that are eco-friendly and non-animal sourced. \u2014 Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue , 3 June 2021",
      "The 14 rooms are decorated with raffia palm writing tables, bamboo side tables, botanical lampshades, straw bed frames and headboards. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 Apr. 2021",
      "Traditionally woven using raffia palm fibers, Kuba cloths range in size and shape and are renowned as a significant art tradition from this part of the world. \u2014 Gabrielle Davenport, House Beautiful , 7 Oct. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1867, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211219"
  },
  "raffia wax":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a hard light-brown wax obtained as a by-product from the leaves of the raffia palm or similar palms native to tropical Africa and South America":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-050435"
  }
}