Anglo-Ind. Rarely campo. [app. ad. Pg. campo camp.] ‘Used for “a camp,” but formerly specifically applied to the partially disciplined brigades under European commanders in the Mahratta service’ (Yule).
1803. Wellington, in Jas. Grant, Hist. India, I. lxx. 368/1. Their infantry, of which there were three campoos, fought well. Ibid., Lett., in Gurw., Disp., II. 390. Two battalions of the Begum’s Campoo escaped.
1883. Q. Rev., April, 294 (Y.). Campos and pultuns (battalions) under European adventurers.
