- REBECCAITES
- a band of Welsh rioters who in 1843, dressed as females, went about at nights and destroyed the toll-gates, which were outrageously numerous; they took their name from Gen. xxiv. 60.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
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