Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ruptuary \Rup"tu*a*ry\ (?; 135), n. [Cf. Roturier.]
   One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier. [R.]

         The exclusion of the French ruptuaries (``roturiers,''
         for history must find a word for this class when it
         speaks of other nations) from the order of nobility.
                                                  --Chenevix.