pan|dour

pan|dour
pan|dour «PAN dur», noun.
1. one of a force of notoriously brutal and rapacious soldiers organized in Croatia in the 1700's, and later incorporated as a regiment in the Austrian Army.
2. any brutal, plundering soldiers.
╂[< French pandour < German Pandur < Serbo-Croatian pàndūr, earlier bàndūr constable, mounted guard, probably < Italian (Venetian) bandiore < Medieval Latin banderius one who guards; perhaps follower of a bandum banner]

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