'Pandoor' definitions:
Definition of 'pandoor'
From: GCIDE
- Pandour \Pan"dour\, n.
- 1. 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. [Written also pandoor.] [1913 Webster]
- Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. --Campbell. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: A brutal soldier. [PJC]