The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mousquetaire \Mous`que*taire"\, n. [F.]
A musketeer, esp. one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries, conspicuous both for their daring and their fine dress.
A mosquetaire cuff or glove, or other article of dress fancied to resemble those worn by the French mosquetaires.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (cx historical English) A musketeer, especially one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries, famed for their daring and their fine clothing. 2 A mosquetaire cuff or mosquetaire glove, or other article of dress imagined to resemble those worn by the French mosquetaires.
Usage examples of "mousquetaire".
He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be very coquettish, that his handsome brown hair was very well dressed in a roll around his head, and that he had a broad girdle of magnificent moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the world.
One day, the pulpit was occupied by a young priest of high rank, the Duke de Rohan, peer of France, who was an officer of the Mousquetaires Rouges in 1815, when he was Prince de Léon, and who died afterwards in 1830, a cardinal, and Archbishop of Besançon.
The big shoulders, black brows and black mousquetaire swagger of Flambeau were a great contrast.