Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See pandoor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun 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.
  • noun A brutal soldier.

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  • noun One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army.

Etymologies

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Named after Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came.

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Examples

  • On the books of profane music which entered the convent, amour (love) was replaced by tambour (drum) or pandour.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • This created enigmas which exercised the imaginations of the big girls, such as: Ah, how delightful is the drum! or, Pity is not a pandour.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • You may tell me, if you like, that I am a _pandour_, and that my taste has been perverted by a life of unbridled Epicureanism; you may tell me that the charms of duplicity, of falsehood, and of this connivance in the guise of a childish deception, are exercising a morbid fascination over my demoralized heart.

    French and Oriental Love in a Harem Mario Uchard

  • This created enigmas which exercised the imaginations of the big girls, such as: Ah, how delightful is the drum! or, Pity is not a pandour.

    Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis 1862

  • On the books of profane music which entered the convent, amour (love) was replaced by tambour (drum) or pandour.

    Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis 1862

  • His cousin the pandour died in Vienna, and, as Trenck believed that he had left him a fortune of some millions, he tore his tender ties asunder, and hastened to Vienna to receive this rich inheritance, which, to his astonishment, he found to consist not in millions, but in law processes.

    Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends 1843

  • The king appeared relieved, as he replied, with a smile: "This pandour is a cousin of our lieutenant."

    Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends 1843

  • When you inform the king of this letter from the pandour, you can also say that

    Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends 1843

  • "He is the only heir of the pandour chieftain, Franz von Trenck."

    Frederick the Great and His Family Chapman Coleman 1843

  • The pandour chieftain Trenck soon became so rich, that he excited the envy of the noblest and wealthiest men in the kingdom, so rich that he was able to lend large sums of money to the powerful and influential

    Frederick the Great and His Family Chapman Coleman 1843

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