A variant spelling of burkundauze; a historical Ottoman or Turkish military garment or uniform, particularly a short jacket worn by soldiers.
Turkish/Ottoman origin, alternate spelling of 'burkundauze' with the '-az' ending instead of '-ze', reflecting the variations in transliterating Ottoman Turkish into English.
Different European observers used different transliterations of Ottoman military terms depending on their language background—French, German, and English sources sometimes recorded the same garment under completely different names, creating confusion that took historians centuries to sort out.
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