Meaning of Arnaut | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An inhabitant of Albania and neighboring mountainous regions, especially an Albanian serving in the Turkish army.
   historical
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.
   historical

Examples

“I know him by his jet-black barb, / Though now array'd in Arnaut garb, [...]”

“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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