carabineer

or car·a·bi·nier

[kahr-uh-buh-neer]

noun

carbineer.

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Historical Examples of carabineer

And she sighed as she looked up at the picture of her Carabineer.
The History of Pendennis
William Makepeace Thackeray
The same shell killed eleven horses in the Carabineer lines.
Four Months Besieged
H. H. S. Pearse
Not one turban was seen between the battlements, not one carabineer's bayonet in the intrenchment.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXII.
Various
Unless you will carry some weapon, I shall have you escorted to Santa Vittoria and back by a carabineer.'
Corleone
F. Marion Crawford
This dashing exploit was attended with the loss of only one Scots Grey and one Carabineer wounded.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. V (of VI)
Louis Creswicke

British Dictionary definitions for carabineer

carabineer

carabinier

noun

variants of carbineer

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Word Origin and History for 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.