It renders the Spaniard at times pompous and grandiloquent; prone to carry the "pundonor," or point of honor, beyond the bounds of sober sense and sound morality; disposed, in the midst of poverty, to affect the "grande caballero," and to look down with sovereign disdain upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies] Reference

"pundonor" which is supposed to characterise Arab thieves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

305 These pretentious and curious displays of coquetry are not uncommon in handsome slave-girls when newly bought; and it is a kind of pundonor to humour them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Burckhardt, who suffered from them, gives a long account of their treachery and utter absence of that Arab “pundonor” which is supposed to characterise Arab thieves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

The Badawi who eructates as a civility, has a mortal hatred to a crepitus ventris; and were a by-stander to laugh at its accidental occurrence, he would at once be cut down as a “pundonor.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

‘pundonor,’ the high punctilio, and rarely drew the stiletto in their disputes; but their pride was silent and contumelious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Irving] Reference

Trading tribes rarely affect the pundonor which characterizes the pastoral and the predatory; these people traffic in all things, even in the chastity of their women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference

They were, withal, of great pride, yet it was not like our inflammable Spanish pride: they stood not much upon the pundonor, the high punctilio, and rarely drew the stiletto in their disputes; but their pride was silent and contumelious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Irving]

They were, withal, of great pride, yet it was not like our inflammable Spanish pride: they stood not much upon the 'pundonor,' the high punctilio, and rarely drew the stiletto in their disputes; but their pride was silent and contumelious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

+ a highly developed, even much exaggerated, feeling of honour (the pundonor).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

The Bráhni and Beloch pomades have the same pundonor possibly learnt from the Arabs (Pilgrimage i.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

“pundonor” with the village.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

A manner of "pundonor" with the village.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

“pundonor.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference