Obs. [a. OF. frapaille, collect, f. frape: see FRAPE1.] A contemptuous name given to a body of people; rabble; esp. the camp-followers of an army.

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c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 13319.

        Þer harneys & þer frapaille
Þat fel nought to be in bataille,
Vnder an hil he set þem þere,
As þey armed men alle were.

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