The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pandour \Pan"dour\, n.
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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. Hence: A brutal soldier.
Wiktionary
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.