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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 240 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOOTY (apparently influenced by " See also:boot," O. Eng. bot, ad-vantage or profit, through an See also:adaptation from an earlier See also:form cognate with Ger. Beute and Fr. butin) , See also:plunder or gain. The phrase " to See also:play booty," dating from the 16th See also:century, means to play into a confederate's hands, or to play intentionally badly at first in See also:order to deceive an opponent.

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