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raffles in American English
noun: a gentlemanly burglar, amateur housebreaker, or the like
noun: Sir Thomas Stamford 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies

Raffles in British English
noun: Sir Thomas Stamford. 1781–1826, British colonial administrator: founded Singapore (1819) as a station for the British East India Company

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