#178 brigand

brigand- a bandit, plunderer, especially a member of a gang operating in mountainous areas

- C14 from Old French, from Old Italian brigante fighter, from brigare to fight from briga strife of Celtic origin

But "a pistol in the hand of a brigand is also power," but do you think that I should be morally obliged to give him my purse?

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