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Brigandage refers to the life and practice of brigands - highway robbery
and plunder.
Origin of the word The brigand is supposed to derive his name from the
Old French brigan, which is a form of the Italian brigante, an irregular or
partisan soldier. There can be no doubt as to the origin of the word
bandit, which has the same meaning. In Italy, which is not unjustly
considered the home of the most accomplished European brigands, a bandito
was a man declared outlaw by proclamation, or bandoBando: Encyclopedia of
Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the
Collector, Curator and Historian, page 39, By Maurice Rickards, Published
2000 Routledge, ISBN 0-415-92648-3, called in Scotland "a decree of
horning" because it was delivered by a blast of a horn at the town cross.
The brigand, therefore, is the outlaw who conducts warfare after the manner
of an irreg
