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Pandour

Pān'dōor, n.

noun

n. See PANDOUR.

Pān'dour, n.

noun

(păn'/dōor) (Synop., § 130), n. [So called because they were originally raised from the mountainous districts in Lower Hungary, near the village of Pandur.] A Hungarian foot-soldier in the Austrian service. [Written also pandoor.]

When leagued oppression poured to northern wars Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. Campbell.