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Pandour   Listen
noun
Pandour  n.  
1.
One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army that served as local militia in Croatia; so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came. They were noted for their ruthlessness. (Written also pandoor) "Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars."
2.
Hence: A brutal soldier.





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"Pandour" Quotes from Famous Books



... repeat it not in John's Coffee-house, neither whisper it in the Abbey of Holyrood-House; no, I shall never forget the fowls and oyster sauce which bedecked the board: fat were the fowls, and the oysters of the true pandour or croat kind; then the apple pie with raisins, and the mutton with cauliflower, can never be erased from my remembrance; I may forget my native country, my dear brothers and sisters, my poetry, my art of making love, and even you, ...
— Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica • James Boswell
 
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