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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 990 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOOT , See also:

plunder or spoil taken from an enemy in See also:war, especially the indiscriminate plunder taken by the See also:victor after the See also:capture of a See also:city. The word came into See also:English from See also:India. It is adapted from the See also:Hindi lut, which is either from See also:Sanskrit lutit, to rob, plunder, or lotra, loptra, See also:booty.

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