Purloin

PUBLIC HISTORIAN

Purloin

pur·loin/pərˈloin

verbFORMAL•HUMOROUS

  1. steal (something).
  2. “he must have managed to purloin a copy of the key”
  3. Origin: Middle English (in the sense ‘put at a distance’): from Anglo-Norman French purloigner ‘put away’, from pur- ‘forth’ + loign ‘far’.

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