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
The barracks are apparently outside the walls; there you meet cavalry going and coming, and detachments of bersaglieri; or riflemen, pushing on at their quick trot, or plainer infantry trudging wearily.
From Roman Holidays, and Others by William Dean Howells
They are a couple of bersaglieri, dressed in gray, with little round hats decked out in cock's plumes.
From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez
The cornets of the bersaglieri rejoiced the captain like the announcement of a triumphal entry.
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
Some companies of bersaglieri arrived from Naples and united in resisting the attacks of the Bourbon troops, who were in the end repelled and compelled to retire.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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