pandar

• pander

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.)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpændə/

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• Rhymes: -ændə
• Homophone: panda (UK)

pandar (plural pandars)

1. (obsolete) A person who furthers the illicit love affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male.
   • c. 1607–1621 (date written), [Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger], The Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and His Brother Theodoret. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1621, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, signature D2, recto:

     From my exceſſe of moyſture, vvith ſuch coſt, / And can you yeeld no other retribution, / But to deuoure your maker, pandar, ſponge, / Impoyſner, all grovvne barren?

pandar (third-person singular simple present pandars, present participle pandaring, simple past and past participle pandared)

1. To pander (assist in the gratification of).
   • 1795, Paul Dunvan, Ancient and Modern History of Lewes and Brighthelmston, page 397:

     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.

   • 1827, Law of Libel—State of the Press: The Quarterly Review, volume 35, London, page 608:

     […] not to be confounded by all the efforts of interested writers, who would abuse the valuable immunities of the press to the wretched purposes of venal detraction, and a lucrative pandaring to the morbid tastes of the public.

   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume 2, published 1858, page 456:

     He had, during many years, earned his daily bread by pandaring to the vicious taste of the pit, and by grossly flattering rich and noble patrons.

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pandar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of pandō