Pandour

Noun

pan=dour

CIDE DICTIONARY

Pandour, n.

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. [1913 Webster]
"Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars." [1913 Webster]
A brutal soldier. [PJC]

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