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
Her husband has been an officer of the King's bersaglieri.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
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
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
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
