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Definition of Pandoor
1. n. Same as Pandour.
Definition of Pandoor
1. Noun. (alternative form of pandour) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pandoor
1. pandour [n -S] - See also: pandour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pandoor
Literary usage of Pandoor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"pandoor, ». A large oyster, S. " These ... hence the Urge ones obtained the name
of pandoor», ie, oysters caught at the door» of the paru. ..."
2. Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition : with Explanatory Notes by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alfred Christlieb Kalischer, John South Shedlock (1909)
"... the fellow is a downright Bohemian, a pandoor; he does not understand me ; at
first he wrote crotchets ! for the appoggiaturas, and then finally quavers ..."
3. Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1880)
"The terrible names of the pandoor, the Croat, and the Hussar, then first became
familiar to Western Europe. The unfortunate Charles of Bavaria, ..."
4. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1854)
"... who inspected travellers' luggage, seeing the paper, tore it into a thousand
pieces before our faco, looking as fierce as a pandoor all the time, ..."
5. Travels in the United States, Etc., During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"... in many instances, mustachioed too, that Paddy seemed quite transmogrified
into a " whiskered pandoor or a fierce hussar," which seemed unnecessary for ..."
6. Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1883)
"The terrible names of the pandoor, the Croat, and the Hussar, then first became
familiar to western Europe. The unfortunate Charles of Bavaria, ..."
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