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Samurai was a term for the military nobility in pre-industrial Japan. The word samurai is derived from the Japanese verb saburau (hence the male name "Saburo") meaning 'to serve', a samurai is the servant of a lord.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai
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