A group or band of people, animals, or things; in some regions, a unit of armed soldiers or a musical group.
From Spanish and Portuguese banda, derived from Latin banda meaning a strip or band. It entered European languages through medieval Spanish, where it referred to armed groups or military units.
In medieval Spain, a 'banda' was often a group of armed men pledging loyalty to a lord — these military bands later inspired the modern concept of organized gangs, and also gave us the musical term 'band'!
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