Pandour /(?)/

Pan·dour

Pandour

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.
    Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars.
    — Campbell.
  2. A brutal soldier.