janissary
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Noun — A soldier of the elite Ottoman infantry corps, historically often of Balkan Christian origin and forcibly converted to Islam, whose corps was disbanded in 1826.
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It is a historical term, used mainly when writing about Ottoman history.
Etymology
The word reached English from Italian giannizzaro, possibly by way of Middle French or Spanish. It ultimately comes from Ottoman Turkish yeñiçeri, literally "new soldier". English writers were using the word by the early 16th century, though the janissary corps itself went back to the 14th century.
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