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| klepht [ kleft ] (plural klephts) |
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mountain-dwelling Greek brigand: any of the Greeks who resisted Turkish rule in Greece from 1456 to 1832 and who lived in the mountains as outlaws and brigands
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| [Early 19th century. < modern Greek klephtēs "thief," later form of Greek kleptēs] |
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 kleph·tic adjective |
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