truand
English
Noun
truand (plural truands)
Adjective
truand (comparative more truand, superlative most truand)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “truand”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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French
Etymology
From Transalpine Gaulish *truganto. Cognate to English truant, Irish trogán, Welsh tru.
Pronunciation
Noun
truand m (plural truands, feminine truande)
- (historical) (professional) beggar (in the Middle Ages)
- crook; gangster
- (colloquial) beggar
Derived terms
Further reading
- “truand”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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