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Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold. [Scot.] A dour wife, a sour old carlin. C. Reade.

A kind of millet. See Durra.

See Durukuli.

See Mokadour. [Obs.]

A handkerchief. [Obs.]

n in the region from which they originally came. [Written also pandoor.] Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. Campbell.

t straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so called after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used adjectively.

Rigor; violence. [Obs.] Gower.

One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strai…

ed in the deluge. F. Harrison. After me the deluge. (Aprés moi le déluge.) Madame de Pompadour.

um vulgare; -- called also Indian millet, and Guinea corn. [Written also dhoorra, dhurra, doura, etc.]

A small, nocturnal, South American monkey (Nyctipthecus trivirgatus). [Written also douroucouli.]

Same as Ambassador. Stilbon, that was a wise embassadour, Was sent to Corinth. Chaucer. Myself my king's embassador will go. Dryden.

r person who, for hire, recited or sang verses, usually of his own composition. See Troubadour. Vivacity and picturesquenees of the jongleur's verse. J R. Green.

A handkerchief. [Obs.] [Written also muckinder, muckiter, mockadour.]

Same as Pandour.

devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages.

d complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours.

d to u, w, f, b, p; as in vine, wine; avoirdupois, habit, have; safe, save; trover, troubadour, trope. See U, F, etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 265; also §§ 155, 169, 178-179, etc.

e; meantime. [R.] The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott.