Both Uses of
desperado
in
The Scarlet Letter
- They were rough-looking desperadoes, with sun-blackened faces, and an immensity of beard; their wide short trousers were confined about the waist by belts, often clasped with a rough plate of gold, and sustaining always a long knife, and in some instances, a sword.†
Chpt 21
- The whole gang of sailors, likewise, observing the press of spectators, and learning the purport of the scarlet letter, came and thrust their sunburnt and desperado-looking faces into the ring.†
Chpt 22 *
Definition:
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(desperado) a bold outlaw -- especially from the American old west