bersagliere
noun
one of a class of riflemen or sharpshooters in the Italian army.
bersaglieri
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pluralof bersagliere.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
We were kept some time in the Corso seeing a battalion of "bersaglieri" pass.
From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington
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
So a distinguished brigade of bersaglieri was sent up to counter-attack, and drove the Germans from the captured guns down the slopes of Globocak again.
From World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
Around Globo ridge a bersaglieri brigade, outnumbered five to one, held back the enemy while the main line had an opportunity to get its retreat in motion.
From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller
