turcopole
turcopole noun: a mounted archer locally recruited by the Christian states during the Crusades.
Noun
turcopole (plural turcopoles)
- A mounted archer locally recruited by the Christian states during the Crusades.
- Thus in March 1460, the council ordered the restoration of a turcopole removed from office by the lieutenant turcopolier in a manner not in accordance with the statutes, while some sixteen years later the master and council ruled that the lieutenant turcopolier had wrongly removed a turcopole of...2005, Gregory O'Malley, The Knights Hospitaller of the English Langue 1460-1565, page 307
- However, the local half-caste soldiers, the Turcopoles, second-generation poor and orientalized Latins known as poulains, Venetian and Genoese merchants and newly arrived knights needed the taverns and pleasures of any military town.2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 270
Forms of turcopole
| plural | turcopoles |
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Origin of turcopole
From Byzantine Greek τουρκόπουλοι (tourkópouloi, “sons of Turks”), from Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos) + -πουλος (-poulos).
Questions about turcopole
- What does turcopole mean?
- Turcopole means a mounted archer locally recruited by the Christian states during the Crusades.
- What part of speech is turcopole?
- Turcopole is a noun.
- What is the plural of turcopole?
- The plural of turcopole is turcopoles.
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