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stradiot Hist.|ˈstrædɪɒt|
Also 6 stradiott, stradiote, stradyate.
[ad. It. stradiotto: see estradiot. Cf. F. stradiot.]
= estradiot.
a1533Ld. Berners Huon clxxxix. 761 This great stradiot is come well at a poynte for or he departe he shall pay for our scot & expence. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 28 Among the Frenchmen were certaine light horsmen called Stradiotes with..smal speres and swerdes like semiteries of Turkay. 1567Fenton Trag. Disc. v. 95 Leauyng the miserable stradyates..to the guide and gouernemente of their fortune. 1643Baker Chron., Edw. IV, 108 The Duke of Burgoigne..had promised..to bring..foure thousand Stradiots or light horse. 1825Scott Talism. xxiv, A gallant band of twelve hundred Stradiots, a kind of light cavalry raised by the Venetians in their Dalmatian possessions. 1878L. Villari Machiavelli (1892) I. i. xii. 498 This general was captured on the road by the Stradiotes of Venice. |