Definitions for pandour

pandour pan·dour

Spelling: [pan-doo r]
IPA: /ˈpæn dʊər/

Pandour is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in pandour (adnopru).

Definitions for pandour

noun

  1. History/Historical. a member of a local militia in Croatia, formed as a regiment in the Austrian army in the 18th century and noted for its ruthlessness and cruelty.
  2. a brutal, marauding soldier.

Origin of pandour

1740-50; French pandour(e) ≪ Serbo-Croatian pàndūr community or city policeman, pandour, probably Hungarian pandúr Slavic *pǫdarĭ (> Serbo-Croatian pùdār one who guards a vineyard), deriva

Examples for pandour

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

You would be forgetting her descent from the pandour hordes who came galloping up out of the Caucasus so many centuries ago.

So on we went with the horse—I was in his pandour regiment, worse luck!

The points of inrush, the tideways of these pandour Deluges seem to be mainly three.

Here, Tommy, will you have your pandour with whiskers or without?

The Dolphin and pandour had previously anchored on the north shore.

Except with his pandour people, working what mischief they can, Neipperg does nothing.

I remember when people in England changed a shirt only once a week: a pandour, when he gets a shirt, greases it to make it last.

Diligently scanning the pandour stragglings and sputterings round him, which are clearly on the increasing hand.

I am the pandour of pandours—your correspondent, and now your cabinet counsellor.

Word Value for pandour
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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