Raffles
raff·les
noun
1.
British colonial administrator who founded Singapore (1781-1826)
Origin
May come from a Scandinavian source like Old Norse refr (“fox”) + hol (“hole”), or comes from Raphael, with a patronymic suffix -s.
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