cavalryman
Americannoun
plural
cavalrymenEtymology
Origin of cavalryman
Example Sentences
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Even if the cavalryman is restored, he added, “nothing can change the fact that the finger was once damaged.”
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2023
While certainly a dynamic leader, and, Brian Steel Wills has argued, an expert cavalryman, perhaps even the Confederacy’s best, Forrest was certainly not a great commander.
From Slate • Mar. 5, 2022
Army cavalryman who eventually became a Confederate general.
From Washington Times • Aug. 17, 2017
A former cavalryman, he was sent to collect four Lippizaners, part of the famous Spanish Riding School in Vienna that had been sent to secret locations at the start of the war.
From BBC • Feb. 1, 2011
There was not a cavalryman near, not one horse.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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