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musketeer

[ muhs-ki-teer ]

noun

  1. a soldier armed with a musket.


musketeer

/ ˌmʌskɪˈtɪə /

noun

  1. (formerly) a soldier armed with a musket
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of musketeer1

1580–90; musket + -eer; compare French mousquetaire, equivalent to mousquet musket + -aire -ary
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Example Sentences

But third musketeer Chris Bosh refused to miss out on the action.

David Lincoln Ross pays tribute—and shares a recipe for a winter warmer perfect for a musketeer.

Musketeer Oil heiress Eleanor Ritchey had a tendency to accumulate things.

It took 16 years before the last survivor, a mutt named Musketeer, expired.

M. de Bourbonne, a retired musketeer in easy circumstances, was well connected.

He knew them to be his wife's brothers, one a dragoon, the other a musketeer.

In the same enclosure are two figures made up of Maximilian armour, and a bowman and a musketeer of the Earl of Worcester's time.

The exception was Sergeant Lawson, who, after slaying four men with his own hand, was shot down at close range by a musketeer.

Encounter-battles became more frequent than “pitched” battles, and in these the musketeer was at a great advantage.

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