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Definitions from Wiktionary (Jannissary)

noun:  Alternative form of janissary [(historical) An infantry soldier, often of European Christian background from the Balkans as well as Eastern Europe and forcibly converted to Islam, in a former elite Turkish (Ottoman) guard (disbanded in 1826).]

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