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Definition of Pandoors
1. pandoor [n] - See also: pandoor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pandoors
Literary usage of Pandoors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake (1851)
"... called the Walachian peasants and pandoors to arms, in order to obtain from
the Porte, by means of the assistance of Russia, which he promised them, ..."
2. The Fifth Or Elocutionary Reader: In which the Principles of Elocution are by Salem Town (1859)
"... Her whiskered pandoors a and her fierce hussars," Waved her dread standard to
the breeze of morn, Pealed her loud drum, and twanged her trumpet born. ..."
3. The Popular Encyclopedia: Being a General Dictionary of Arts, Sciences by Daniel Keyte Sandford, Thomas Thomson, Allan Cunningham (1836)
"... January 30, with sixty pandoors, and instigated the peasants to revolt,
promising them the protection of Russia and the restoration of their old rights. ..."
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