carabineer

or car·a·bi·nier

[kahr-uh-buh-neer]

noun

carbineer.

Nearby words

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Examples from the Web for carabineer

This carabineer in disguise was very good-humoured, and kept me company as far as Novara.
My Ten Years' Imprisonment|Silvio Pellico
And she sighed as she looked up at the picture of her Carabineer.
The History of Pendennis|William Makepeace Thackeray
Pinocchio saw the Carabineer from afar and tried his best to escape between the legs of the big fellow, but without success.
The Adventures of Pinocchio|C. Collodi--Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini
Not one turban was seen between the battlements, not one carabineer's bayonet in the intrenchment.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXII.|Various

Commendatore Angelelli returned with the Carabineer, and there was some talking in low tones.
The Eternal City|Hall Caine

British Dictionary definitions for carabineer

carabineer

carabinier

noun

variants of carbineer

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Word Origin and History for carabineer

carabineer

"mounted soldier armed with a carbine," 1670s, from French carabinier (17c.), from carabine "carbine" (see carbine). Italian carabinieri "soldiers serving as a police force" is the same word.