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‖ trabant|traˈbant|
Also 7 trabanto, travant, 7–8 traband.
[a. Ger. trabant a life-guard, an armed attendant, a satellite (also in Astron.), in It. trabante, F. traban, Boh. drabanti; of Turkish (orig. Pers.) origin: see drabant.]
1. In some European countries, a life-guard, an armed attendant, a satellite. Now chiefly Hist.
1617Moryson Itin. iii. 188 He [the Emperor] had one hundred for his Guard, (called Trabantoes)... Ten Hascheres and twelue Trabantoes attended each day. a1634Chapman Alphonsus iii. F iv b, Six travants well arm'd. 1693Lond. Gaz. No. 2845/2 Thus they went through several stately Rooms, having the Trabands on each side of them. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. V. 317 The fifty halberdeers and the fifty trabands or horse-guards here being rather instituted for the splendor of the court than the military establishment. 1904Daily Chron. 15 Dec. 1/7 It was announced that the President [of the Hungarian Chamber]..would not appear, and that the guard of ‘Trabants’ had been removed.
2. Cytology. = satellite n. 9.
1926C. D. Darlington in Jrnl. Genetics XVI. 248 A portion thus narrower than the main body of the chromosome seems to require the name of satellite or trabant; such an element, having an attraction for the parent body proportionally less than a larger element, is naturally more subject to external forces, hence the common appearance of flying out. 1967C. P. Swanson et al. Cytogenetics ii. 26 The region of the chromosome distal to the nucleolar gap is called a trabant or satellite. 1980Caryologia XXXIII. 207 In three individuals we observed different thickness of the intercalary trabant. |