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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Aurangzeb's musketeers held their fire until the last minute, then discharged their entire artillery. ▪ Later in life he was to portray himself as the Minotaur or a musketeer . ▪ The vast army numbered around 100,000 cavalry ...
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A musketeer was an early modern type of soldier equipped with a musket . Musketeers were an important part of early modern armies, particularly in Europe. In most cases they served on foot as infantry , though sometimes they could operate on horseback: ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Musketeer \Mus`ket*eer"\, n. [F. mousquetaire; cf. It. moschettiere.] A soldier armed with a musket.
Usage examples of musketeer.
The Ktemnoi Sacred Squares were dressed in blue shirts and breeches, with brown boiled-leather jacks for the musketeers and polished steel breastplates for the billmen, set off by orange sashes.
The remaining Ktemnoi musketeers fired a last ragged volley at almost point-blank range, then fell back, leaving the billmen to take the Hostigi charge.
Biscarrat, repulsed by his friends, not able to accompany them, without passing in the eyes of Porthos and Aramis for a traitor and a perjurer, with painfully attentive ear and still supplicating hands leaned against the rough side of a rock which he thought must be exposed to the fire of the musketeers.
Of the twenty musketeers who had accompanied the king, ten reconducted Monsieur to the reception-rooms, which were not yet empty, notwithstanding the king had retired.
The others were chiming their agreement to this formula when Sargon, recognizing the motto of the Three Musketeers, began to chuckle.
Half a dozen musketeers in their steel caps, buff coats, and bandileers, were standing behind him.
I hope you air satisfied, perswading me to stay out here on the Missoury and skin bufflers and fight musketeers, whilst everybody else in the family is having big doings and enjoying theirselves.
Three Musketeers of Space, John Star, Jay Kalaam and Hal Samdu, accompanied by a rocket-age, lock-picking Falstaffian replica, set out to a rousing series of adventures to discover the secret of AKKA, the ultimate weapon.
For this reason Monsieur le comte de Sheerness left orders, when he went to Londres, that musketeers were to be billeted in the stables, and the perimeters of the estate were to be patrolled night and day.
With the Hottentot musketeers and the Nguni spearmen he need fear nothing in this wild and savage land.
You should know that, Planchet, you who commanded the Parisians the day on which they ought to have fought against the musketeers, and who so well calculated marches and countermarches, that you never left the Palais Royal.
And, while Raoul turned away his eyes in compassion, he pointed to the musketeers the gibbets laden with their melancholy fruit.
Paris at the tender age of 18, and almost immediately offends three musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos.
After a company of musketeers, a closely ranked troop of gentlemen, came the litter of monsieur le cardinal, drawn like a carriage by four black horses.
The king bowed, crossed the hall, and gained the door, where a hedge of twenty musketeers awaited him.