Crossword clues for musketeer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Musketeer \Mus`ket*eer"\, n. [F. mousquetaire; cf. It. moschettiere.] A soldier armed with a musket.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context military English) A foot soldier armed with a musket. 2 (context military English) In 17th and 18th century France, a member of the royal household bodyguard.
WordNet
n. a foot soldier armed with a musket
Wikipedia
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: as a cavalryman or dragoon. The musketeer was a precursor to the rifleman. Muskets were replaced by rifles in most western armies during the mid-1850s. The traditional designation of "musketeer" for an infantry private survived in the Imperial German Army until World War I.
A musketeer is an early-modern type of infantry soldier.
Musketeer also may refer to:
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.