Brewer's: Bandit

plural banditti or bandits , properly means outlaw (Italian, bandito, banished, men pronounced “banned”). As these outlaws very often became robbers, the term soon came to signify banded highwaymen.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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