miquelet

[ mik-uh-let ]

noun

1. (in the Peninsular War) a Spanish guerrilla who fought against the French.
2. a soldier in any of several Spanish infantry regiments.
3. a flintlock of a type developed in Spain.

Word History and Origins

Origin of miquelet¹

1660–70; < Catalan, equivalent to Miquel Michael + -et -et

Example Sentences

Black Camisard and White Camisard, militiaman and Miquelet and dragoon, Protestant prophet and Catholic cadet of the White Cross, they had all been sabring and shooting, burning, pillaging, and murdering, their hearts hot with indignant passion; and here, after a hundred and seventy years, Protestant is still Protestant, Catholic still Catholic, in mutual toleration and mild amity of life.

From Project Gutenberg

Black Camisard and White Camisard, militiaman and Miquelet and dragoon, Protestant prophet and Catholic cadet of the White Cross, they had all been sabring and shooting, burning, pillaging, and murdering, their hearts hot with indignant passion; and here, after a hundred and seventy years, Protestant is still Protestant, Catholic still Catholic, in mutual toleration and mild amity of life. 

From Project Gutenberg

These two men were M. La Taille and Miquelet, of whom Lescarbot speaks in terms of enthusiastic praise for their patriotic courage in voluntarily risking their lives for the good of New France.

From Project Gutenberg

Alpuhara’s peak that bugle rung,    And it was echoed from Corunna’s wall;  Stately Seville responsive war-shot flung,    Grenada caught it in her Moorish hall;  Galicia bade her children fight or fall,    Wild Biscay shook his mountain-coronet,  Valencia roused her at the battle-call,    And, foremost still where Valour’s sons are met,First started to his gun each fiery Miquelet.

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