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pander

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈpændə/Part of speech verb, nounSorted adenprStarts with PEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. arrange for sexual partners for others

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders.
  • Camillo was his helpe in this, his Pandar: There is a Plot against my Life, my Crowne; All's true that is mistrusted: that false Villaine, Whom I employ'd, was pre-emplot'd
  • Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.

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