Hist. Also 6 stradiott, stradiote, stradyate. [ad. It. stradiotto: see ESTRADIOT. Cf. F. stradiot.] = ESTRADIOT.
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Huon, clxxxix. 761. This great stradiot is come well at a poynte for or he departe he shall pay for our scot & expence.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 23. Among the Frenchmen were certaine light horsmen called Stradiotes with … smal speres and swerdes like semiteries of Turkay.
1567. Fenton, Trag. Disc., v. 95. Leauyng the miserable stradyates … to the guide and gouernemente of their fortune.
1643. Baker, Chron., Edw. IV., 108. The Duke of Burgoigne … had promised … to bring … foure thousand Stradiots or light horse.
1825. Scott, Talism., xxiv. A gallant band of twelve hundred Stradiots, a kind of light cavalry raised by the Venetians in their Dalmatian possessions.
1878. Villari, Machiavelli (1892), I. I. xii. 498. This general was captured on the road by the Stradiotes of Venice.
