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Topic: ARMY

Date: 1400-1500
Language: Old French
Origin: butin, from Middle Low German bute 'exchange'

booty

 noun
     
boot‧y [uncountable] especially literary
PMA valuable things that a group of people, especially an army that has just won a victory, take away from somewhere [= loot]
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