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Definition of Pandour
1. n. One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came.
Definition of Pandour
1. Noun. One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pandour
1. a marauding soldier [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pandour
Literary usage of Pandour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"An august National Assembly shall make the Constitution ; and neither foreign
pandour, domestic Triumvirate, with levelled Cannon, Guy-Faux powder-plots ..."
2. Steam Warfare in the Parana: A Narrative of Operations, by the Combined by Laughlan Bellingham Mackinnon, Félix de Azara (1848)
"... of Weather—Shelter in a Cove—A Survey—A Spy—Caution—Departure —An old Blanco—Wild
Landscape—Funereal Cremation—Refugee Families—The pandour— ..."
3. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of the by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1842)
"... must be taken by all witnesses who do not fall within the admitted exceptions.
Are we, in swearing a German pandour, to adopt the notion and practice of ..."
4. History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1862)
"27th Feb., 1741. as if the Principal Relay-Party were now marching on Baumgar-
ten, an intermediate Village — at least so the pandour Captain understands ..."
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