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pandar

verb /ˈpændə/

  1. To pander (assist in the gratification of).

    That degenerate aſſembly even pandared to the libidinous epicuriſm of this many-wived tyrant; and outraged, at his command, the rights of decorum, of juſtice, and of nature.

Where it comes from

From Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus, from Ancient Greek Πάνδαρος (Pándaros). (See also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida.)

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry pandar (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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