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BANDOLEER

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ban⋅do⋅leer

  [ban-dl-eer]
–noun
a broad belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers and having a number of small loops or pockets, for holding a cartridge or cartridges.
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Origin:
1570–80; earlier bandollier < MF bandoulliere < Catalan bandolera, fem. deriv. of bandoler member of a band of men (bandol (< Sp bando band 1 ) + -er < L -ārius -ary; cf. -eer )

Related forms:
ban⋅do⋅leered, ban⋅do⋅liered, adjective
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ban·do·leer or ban·do·lier   (bān'də-lîr')   
n.  A belt fitted with small pockets or loops for carrying cartridges and worn across the chest by soldiers.

[French bandoulière, from Spanish bandolera, diminutive of banda, band, of Germanic origin; see bhā-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

bandoleer 
1577, "shoulder belt (for a wallet)," from Sp. bandolera, from dim. of banda "a scarf, sash," a Gmc. loan-word related to Goth. bandwa (see band (2)). Meaning "ammunition belt for a musket" is from 1596; hence bandolero "highwayman, robber" (1645), from Sp., lit. "man who wears a bandoleer."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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