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Definition of Pandours
1. pandour [n] - See also: pandour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pandours
Literary usage of Pandours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Baron Frederick Trenck, Containing His Adventures, His Cruel and by Friedrich Trenck (1828)
"The state reaped tha advantages of conquest, and the pandours of plunder, by the
hope of ... Pillage and murder attended the pandours wherever they went, ..."
2. A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer: Comprising Ancient and Modern Military by Thomas Wilhelm (1881)
"They were ordered upon all desperate services, and their method of fighting was
the same as the pandours. Cronstadt. A seaport and fortress of Russia, ..."
3. History of Frederick the Second: Called Frederick the Great by John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1871)
"The pandours.—Divisions in Council.—Sickness of Louis XV.—Energy of Frederick.—Distress
of the Army. THE correspondence carried on between Frederick and ..."
4. Frederick the Great and His Family: An Historical Novel by Luise Mühlbach (1893)
"THE LEGACY OP TON TRENCK, COLONEL OF THE pandours. BARON WEINGARTEN, the new
secretary of legation of the Austrian embassy in Berlin, paced the ambassador's ..."
5. A Short History of South Africa. (1486-1826).: For the Use of Schools by George McCall Theal (1890)
"This corps was termed the pandours. No other means could be devised of strengthening
the colony. Messrs. ..."
6. The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy by Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy (1826)
"... of pandours. RICHARD II. When Henry of Bolingbroke, afterwards Henry IV., landed
in England, his first object was to seize on the person of Richard II. ..."
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