palikar
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of palikar
1805–15; < Modern Greek palikári lad, youth, variant of Late Greek pallēkárion camp boy ( Greek pallēk-, stem of pállēx a youth + -arion diminutive suffix)
Example Sentences
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Palikár—"strong youth," a name given to themselves by the Klephts, freebooters of Thessaly.
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With a long gun over his shoulder, a palikár walks hither and thither, who has built his hut in a lurking-place where Ali Pasha will not find it.
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The Palikar still struts about in all his old bravery; and the bourgeois humbly imitates the dingy garb of Southern Italy.
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The Palikar element also is notably absent; and the soldiers are in uniform, not in half-uniform and half-brigand attire.
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