cavalryman
Americannoun
plural
cavalrymenEtymology
Origin of cavalryman
Example Sentences
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It took museum officials a couple of weeks to notice that the thumb was missing from a warrior known as the cavalryman.
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2023
While certainly a dynamic leader, and, Brian Steel Wills has argued, an expert cavalryman, perhaps even the Confederacy’s best, Forrest was certainly not a great commander.
From Slate • Mar. 5, 2022
Munro went on to learn German in Stuttgart, studied a business course in London and served as a cavalryman in the Basuto War in southern Africa.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2019
He was “a true horse cavalryman, replete with Stetson, spurs, saber, and his trusty mount,” a friend wrote of him more than 70 years later in a newsletter of the 7th Cavalry Association.
From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2016
“The heat was suffocating,” a French cavalryman remembered.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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