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scandaroon|skændəˈruːn|
Also 7 skanderoun.
[Presumably from Scanderoon, Iskanderūn, the name of a seaport in Syria.]
†1. ? A swindler, fraudulent dealer. Obs.
1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 342 There are a company of notable Skanderouns which greatly desire to be stiled Merchants, and these are such as runne from house to house, from Market to Market,..with packs and Fardels vpon their backes, filled with counterfeit and adulterate wares..: and these are called Pedlers.
2. A variety of Carrier Pigeon.
Perh. so called from the fact that ‘formerly the Pigeon was employed by the English Factory at Scanderoon to carry intelligence of the arrival of their ships in that port to Aleppo’ (Encycl. Metrop. XVII. 37).
1860Brent Pigeon Bk. 21 The Scandaroon, or Great Horseman (Columba tuberculosa)... This is another breed of the Wattled Pigeons. 1879L. Wright Pract. Pigeon Keeper 80 We should..be very much inclined to try a cross with a white Scandaroon. |