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‖ palikar|ˈpælɪkɑː(r)|
Also pallecar.
[ad. mod.Gr. παλικάρι, παλληκάρι lad, f. Gr. πάλλαξ, -ηξ youth; in F. palikare.]
A member of the band of a Greek or Albanian military chief, esp. during the war of Independence.
1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. lxxi, Each Palikar his sabre from him cast. 1826Blackw. Mag. XX. 719 The remnant of the Suliot palikars..were reduced to capitulate. 1853Felton Fam. Lett. xxxv. (1865) 277 Two very handsome, genteel, and civil pallecars, who were very attentive to us. 1854Blackw. Mag. LXXVI. 417 The third prominent feature in the social condition of the Greek population is the existence of a military caste called Palikars.
Hence ˈpalikarism, the palikar system or institution.
1854Blackw. Mag. LXXVI. 418 Otho [was] re-established in absolute power by the assistance of palikarism and municipal corruption. |