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Rattlebag Surname Definition:

RATTLEBAG: I know not whether this odd surname still exists. It is common in old records, as Ratellebagg. It is probably synonymous with the O.-French claqueur, a leper or lazar, so called because he collected alms by means of a claquette.

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RATTLEBAG: I know not whether this odd surname still exists. It is common in old records, as Ratellebagg. It is probably synonymous with the O.-French claqueur, a leper or lazar, so called because he collected alms by means of a claquette. clack dish, or "rattle-trap," which answered the two-fold purpose of calling the attention of the charitable, and at the same time of warning them against a too near approach to the unfortunate leper.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower
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