riotour

• reatour, riatoure, rietoure, ryetour, ryotour
• riator, riatour, rioter, riottour, ryatour, ryotter, ryouter (late)

Borrowed from Old French rioteor; equivalent to rioten +‎ -our.

• IPA^(key): /ˌriːutˈuːr/, /ˈriːutur/, /ˈriːətur/

riotour (plural riotours)

1. A rioter; an individual who participates in a riot.
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 692-693:

     ‘Ye, goddes armes,’ quod this ryotour,
     ‘Is it swich peril with him for to mete?’

     ‘Yea, God's arms,’ said this rioter,
     ‘Is it such peril to meet with him?’

2. An individual who lives profligately or dissolutely.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

3. (rare) A robber or looter.

• English: rioter, riotor

• “rīotǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.