Buccaneer Pirate Deluxe Costume
Source: Star Costumes
This dashing deluxe Pirate costume includes Striped Satin Vest with Sequin Trim, Linen Shirt, Satin Pantaloons, Matching Scarf and Boot Tops.
Buccaneer Pirate Deluxe Costume
Estimated Price $ 240.00
This buccaneer costume will serve you well for many occasions - for Halloween parties and costume balls. The ladies are especially keen on the style of this costume and the handsome, dashing buccaneer often rides off into the sunset with the lady of his choice.
Historical Perspective on Buccaneers
August 31, 1919
Bloodstained Booty
To mention St. Kitts is to get a vision of bloodstained pieces of eight, of big round Spanish doubloons, of rare jeisve gouged from the eyes of sacred images stolen from tome's richest churches in Panama and South America of wonderful garments of the finest silks and velvets with great collars of the rarest lace worn by tense eyed bearded men more used to the tunic and short drawers of the boucaniers and whose only collar had been a great cut of fresh meat through which their heads were thrust as they started to return from their hunt.
It was on St Christopher or St. Kitts that the later buccaneers had their origin. The name comes from the Indian won toucan, which means dried meat, or the place for drying meat. From this was derived the term boucaniers, later spelled "buccaneers." It meant. In its original sense the hunters; of wild cattle and hogs, who, to preserve the fruit of their chase, cut the meat into strips and dried it over a slow fire.
Some of the old chronicles of the buccaneering stories divide the settlers of Christopher into three classes, the boucaniers, or hunters; the habitants, or planters, and the filibustiers, or sea rovers, but this was a hair-splitting division because all classes engaged at one time or another in each of the "industries" of the Spanish Main and all came later to be called buccaneers.
