stradiotn.
/ˈstradɪɒt/ Historical.
= estradiot n.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > mounted soldier > light-armed
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stradiotc1515
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light horseman1544
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Cossack1587
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c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) clxxxix. 761 This great stradiot is come well at a poynte for or he departe he shall pay for our scot & expence.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxviij Among the Frenchmen were certaine light horsmen called Stradiotes with..small speres, & swerdes like Semiteries of Turkay.
1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. v. sig. Mvii Leauyng the miserable stradyates..to the guide and gouernemente of their fortune.
1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. ii. 108 The Duke of Burgoigne..had promised..to bring..foure thousand Stradiots or light horse.
1825 W. Scott Talisman xi, in Tales Crusaders IV. 226 A gallant band of twelve hundred Stradiots, a kind of light cavalry raised by the Venetians in their Dalmatian possessions.
1878 L. Villari tr. P. Villari Life & Times Machiavelli (1892) I. i. xii. 498 This general was captured on the road by the Stradiotes of Venice.
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