Words can have less common meanings, particularly as the article was published nearly 120 years ago. For instance, from the Merriam Webster dictionary ...
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Merriam Webster
Definition of riffraff
1 : disreputable persons; : rabble
2 : refuse, rubbish
Examples of riffraff in a Sentence
the sight of piles and piles of riffraff at the town dump was a sobering reminder that we are indeed a society of consumers
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