pilour

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English

Noun

pilour (plural pilours)

  1. (obsolete) A piller; a plunderer.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pilour”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)


Old French

Etymology

piler (to plunder) +‎ -our.

Noun

pilour oblique singularm (oblique plural pilours, nominative singular pilours, nominative plural pilour)

  1. (Anglo-Norman) plunderer; pillager

Descendants

  • English: piller