bersagliere
Americannoun
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bersaglieri
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of bersagliere
1860–65; < Italian: literally, marksman, equivalent to bersagl ( io ) target (< Old French bersail; bers ( er ) to hunt (perhaps < Germanic; compare Middle High German birsen, German birschen, pirschen to hunt) + -ail noun suffix) + -iere -ary
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It was not so fast as the running step of the Italian bersagliere, but as fast as our "double-quick."
From With the Allies by Richard Harding Davis
After Italy had declared war against Austria, he joined the corpo dei bersaglieri, went to the front and was in 1917 wounded.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had no fear of seeing the brave bersaglieri of his Holiness here.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid
When the morning was well advanced the bugles of the bersaglieri awakened him from a heavy sleep.
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
A regiment of bersaglieri was assembling for drill during the comparatively cool interval before sunset, and, on the seaward side of the plain, a squat fort pointed its guns at town and harbor.
From The Wheel O' Fortune by Louis Tracy
Her husband has been an officer of the King's bersaglieri.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
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