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brigand

[ UK /bɹˈɪɡænd/ ]
NOUN
  1. an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band

How To Use brigand In A Sentence

  • The withdrawal of the brigand was a signal for a regular mob of the lawless men to make their appearance. Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece
  • We cannot divert from a quest that may hold answers to key secrets about the nature of the universal order to track down a few dozen petty brigands.
  • They are yesteryear's forest brigands who have turned protectors.
  • Sometimes these tufts impart a rather brigandish expression to his otherwise solemn countenance. Moby Dick; or the Whale
  • He orders that brigands and criminals be brought to justice and that the casual violence of the alehouse and the highway be controlled. The Red Queen
  • Those times were somewhat wild and barbarous, signore, and a gentleman who protected his estates and asked tribute of strangers was termed a brigand, and became highly respected. Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
  • Now passed a guard in the romantic cloak of a brigand in comic opera and a peaked cap like that of an _alguacil_. The Magician
  • Discharged soldiers often took to brigandage: in 1718 one formed a company of footpads which raided the roads between Paris and Caen.
  • For the progress is noticeable only by comparison, and, without speaking of open wars, brigandage, which is dying out, is not yet quite extinct. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
  • The rank and file continued to rely on mail shirts, cloth armours (brigandine and jak) and simpler headgear.
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