campoon.
/kamˈpuː/, U.S. /kæmˈpu/, Indian English /kæmˈpuː/ Anglo-Indian.
‘Used for “a camp”, but formerly specifically applied to the partially disciplined brigades under European commanders in the Mahratta service’ (Yule).
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1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1835) III. 305 Their infantry, of which there were three campoos, fought well.
1803 Duke of Wellington Let. 8 Oct. in Dispatches (1837) II. 390 Two battalions of the Begum's Campoo escaped.
1883 Q. Rev. Apr. 294 Campos and pultuns (battalions) under European adventurers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2022).
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