chasseur
Americannoun
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chasseurs
plural
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(in the French army) one of a body of cavalry or infantry troops equipped and trained for rapid movement.
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a uniformed footman or attendant; liveried servant.
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a hunter.
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Also called hunter's sauce. French Cooking. a brown sauce, usually containing mushrooms, tomatoes, shallots, white wine, etc.
noun
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French army a member of a unit specially trained and equipped for swift deployment
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(in some parts of Europe, esp formerly) a uniformed attendant, esp one in the livery of a huntsman
adjective
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Channeling another part of Southern Europe, Cathédrale will offer French-Mediterranean pissaladière, bouillabaisse and rotisserie chicken chasseur by the executive chef Jason Hall, who cooked at Gotham Bar and Grill.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2019
Pinckney was at the dinner that night, trying to acknowledge and refute history over watermelon brandy, chowchow, shrimp pie, chapon chasseur, and truffled squab served with silver ewers of walnut ketchup.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2017
Unfortunately, a chasseur potpie with filet tips tasted like a dull beef stew; its flaky puff pastry crust could not save it.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2014
At six that same morning Colonel Gamelin, inconspicuous in his dark chasseur uniform, mysterious to other officers in his influence on Joffre, saw the same opportunity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ill as the girl felt, she rose haughtily and self-possessed to greet madame, as, announced by her tall chasseur, with his green plume, the widow glided into the room.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
There was the visit of George VI, when the King held his salute for a battalion of chasseurs a pied until the last little proud-eyed rear guard quick-stepped by.
From Time Magazine Archive
Recently when "Daisy" visited her delighted chasseurs they did everything they could think of to show their gratitude, including a dash up among snow-crested crags to shoot chamois for her lunch.
From Time Magazine Archive
The air was filled with smoke, and the chasseurs at last assembled, every one bearing his own proper booty.
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
It was about this time the sulphurous waters were discovered by some soldiers of the 16th regiment of chasseurs in garrison at Constantinogorsk.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
On the evening of the 18th, after the order of evacuation, it had to defend it only twenty muskets and some chasseurs of Vincennes, interned there for mutiny.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
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