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arnaut
/ˈɑɹˌnaʊt/
noun 2
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2ARNAUT + NOUN
garb
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1
An inhabitant of Albania and neighboring mountainous regions, especially an Albanian serving in the Turkish army.
I know him by his jet-black barb, / Though now array'd in Arnaut garb, [...]
2
A Greek, Albanian, Bulgarian or Serbian soldier, recruited to serve as body-guard to officials in the 18th-19th c. Wallachia and Moldavia. Greek militia units formed in Crimea, 1769.
Included under the generic name of Arnauts, it was recruited from Roumeliote Greeks, Albanians, Bulgarians, and Servians, who acted as body-guards to the princes, the great functionaries, and eve the simple Boyards [in Danubian Principalities, early 19th c.]
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I know him by his jet-black barb, / Though now array'd in Arnaut garb, [...]
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Included under the generic name of Arnauts, it was recruited from Roumeliote Greeks, Albanians, Bulgarians, and Servians, who acted as body-guards to the princes, the great functionaries, and eve the
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