banditti

English

Etymology

Italian bandito

Noun

banditti (plural only)

1. (obsolete) robbers or outlaws.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book VII, chapter xi

     […] this was the very time when the late rebellion was at the highest; and indeed the banditti were now marched into England […]

   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 18

     “ […] I have more pleasure in a snug farmhouse than a watch-tower—and a troop of tidy, happy villagers please me better than the finest banditti in the world.”