[1780] Pandour was a French a 14-gun gun-brig launched in 1780 as a cutter, which the Royal Navy captured in December 1795. She was taken into the Navy as Pandora (or Pandour), but foundered in June 1797.{#tag:ref|The Royal Navy captured three of her sister ships - {{HMS|Tapageur|1779|2}, {HMS|Mutin|1779|2}, and {HMS|Pilot|1779|2} - and too...
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• (n.) One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came.
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Pan'dour noun One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so called from
Pandur , a principal town in the region from which they originally came. [ Written also
pandoor .] « Her whiskered
pandours and her fierce hussars.»
Campbell....
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