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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ruptuary \Rup"tu*a*ry\ (?; 135), n. [Cf. Roturier.]
   One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier. [R.]
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         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.
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