Malandrin

Malandrin - (n.m.)- Voleur, brigand, bandit de grand chemin.

On appelait malandrins, au quatorzième siècle, pendant la Guerre de Cent Ans, des bandes de pillards qui infestaient la France. Emprunté de l'italien malandrino, de même sens.

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Malandrin - (n.m.) - Thief, brigand, highwayman.

In the fourteenth century, during the Hundred Years' War, gangs of looters who infested France were called malandrins. Borrowed from Italian malandrino, with the same meaning.