bandolier
English
Mexican Revolutionary General Pancho Villa wearing two bandoliers.
Alternative forms
- bandoleer, bandelier, bandileer
Etymology
From earlier form bandollier, from Middle French bandoulliere, from Catalan bandolera, feminine derivative of bandoler (“member of a band of men”), from Catalan bàndol (“band, faction, party”), from Old Spanish bando.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌbændəˈlɪə(ɹ)/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Noun
bandolier (plural bandoliers)
- An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 32, in The Dust of Conflict:
- The vivid, untrammeled life appealed to him […]; but he was wise and knew that once peace was established there would be no room in Cuba for the Sin Verguenza.
“None better to face peril or adversity with, but a change is coming, and one cannot always wear the bandolier,” he said.
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World:
- We had each bandoliers of cartridges.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:
- […] with the casual but combative look of the urban photographer, black T-shirt and baseball boots, twenty-pocketed waistcoat and bandolier of film.
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Usage notes
- Originally, a bandolier was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges of powder; it was only later used as a cartridge belt. The term also formerly referred to any of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried.
Derived terms
- bandolierwise
- bandolier bag
Translations
an ammunition belt
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Further reading
bandolier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- broadline, ordinable