pundonor

[FN#305] These pretentious and curious displays of coquetry are not uncommon in handsome slave-girls when newly bought; and it is a kind of pundonor to humour them.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

It renders the Spaniard at times pompous and grandiloquent; prone to carry the "pundonor," or point of honor, beyond the bounds of sober sense and sound morality; disposed, in the midst of poverty, to affect the "grande caballero," and to look down with sovereign disdain upon

Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies Washington Irving 1821

305 These pretentious and curious displays of coquetry are not uncommon in handsome slave-girls when newly bought; and it is a kind of pundonor to humour them.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

"pundonor" which is supposed to characterise Arab thieves.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

"pundonor," the high punctilio, and rarely drew the stiletto in their disputes, but their pride was silent and contumelious.

Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada Washington Irving 1821

Burckhardt, who suffered from them, gives a long account of their treachery and utter absence of that Arab “pundonor” which is supposed to characterise Arab thieves.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The Badawi who eructates as a civility, has a mortal hatred to a crepitus ventris; and were a by-stander to laugh at its accidental occurrence, he would at once be cut down as a “pundonor.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The excuse which the Caliph would find for him is the pundonor shown in killing one he loved so fondly.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Trading tribes rarely affect the pundonor which characterizes the pastoral and the predatory; these people traffic in all things, even in the chastity of their women.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Three motives animate them all: loyalty to the king, devotion to the cross, and the _pundonor_: that sensitive personal honour -- the "Castilian pride" of "Hernani," -- which sometimes ran into fantastic excess.

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886