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Pandour

Pandour \Pan"dour\, n.

  1. One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army that served as local militia in Croatia; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came. They were noted for their ruthlessness. [Written also pandoor.]

    Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars.
    --Campbell.

  2. Hence: A brutal soldier.

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pandour

n. One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army.

Usage examples of "pandour".

While the two armies were thus situated, major-general Seydelitz, who occupied the town of Gotha, being informed, on the nineteenth, that a large body of the enemy was coming towards him, and that it consisted of two regiments of Austrian hussars, one regiment of French hussars, and a detachment made up of French grenadiers, troops of the army of the empire, and a great number of croats and pandours, retired, and posted himself at some distance.