Meaning Of The Word Klepht

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klepht in American English
a member of the Greek patriot bands who held out after the Turkish conquest of Greece in the 15th cent.
noun: a Greek or Albanian brigand, exalted in the war of Greek independence as a patriotic robber; guerrilla

klepht in British English
noun: any of the Greeks who fled to the mountains after the 15th-century Turkish conquest of Greece and whose descendants survived as brigands into the 19th century

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