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1
discarded or useless material
- the sight of piles and piles of riffraff at the town dump was a sobering reminder that we are indeed a society of consumers
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2
people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class
- local ordinances that are intended to keep the riffraff out of the town
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- gentlefolk
- (also gentlefolks),
- nobility,
- peerage
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The first known use of riffraff was in the 15th century
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