pandour

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English

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Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian pandur, from Medieval Latin banderius, a follower of a banner.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpændʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈpændɔː(ɹ)/

Noun

pandour (plural pandours)

  1. One of a class of Croatian skirmishers serving in the Austrian army.
    • 1799, Thomas Campbell, Pleasure of Hope:
      her whisker'd pandours and her fierce hussars
  2. (obsolete) A robber.

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