pandar
English
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Etymology
From Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Pandarus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Πάνδαρος (Pándaros). (See also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida.)
Pronunciation
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Noun
pandar (plural pandars)
- (obsolete) A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male.
Verb
pandar (third-person singular simple present pandars, present participle pandaring, simple past and past participle pandared)
- To pander (assist in the gratification of).
- 1795, Paul Dunvan, Ancient and Modern History of Lewes and Brighthelmston, page 397,
- That degenerate aſſembly even pandared to the libidinous epicuriſm of this many-wived tyrant; and outraged, at his command, the rights of decorum, of juſtice, and of nature.
- 1827, Law of Libel—State of the Press, The Quarterly Review, Volume 35, London, page 608,
- […] not to be confounded by all the efforts of interested writers, who would abuse the valuable immunities of the press to the wretched purposes of venal detraction, and a lucrative pandaring to the morbid tastes of the public.
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 2, 1858, page 456,
- He had, during many years, earned his daily bread by pandaring to the vicious taste of the pit, and by grossly flattering rich and noble patrons.
- 1795, Paul Dunvan, Ancient and Modern History of Lewes and Brighthelmston, page 397,
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Verb
(deprecated template usage) pandar
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