lancer
Americannoun
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lancers
plural
noun
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(formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance
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a member of a regiment retaining such a title
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( plural; capital when part of a name )
the 21st Lancers
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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of lancer
From the Middle French word lancier, dating back to 1580–90. See lance 1, -er 2
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A onetime screen writer and free lancer, he went to New York last summer to help his dad do vacation relief for Walter Winchell.
From Time Magazine Archive
A successful free lancer usually submits at least four or five article ideas for every one a magazine takes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kipling's red-blooded hokum comes to the screen almost intact, lacks nothing for juvenile excitement except possibly a lancer charge or two.
From Time Magazine Archive
The idea is that this Bengal lancer has already had, if not nine lives like a cat, at any rate more than one.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Mayor, who had meanwhile readjusted his sash, saluted the lancer captain, then held out his hand to Kenneth.
From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
In a stark contrast to Roman tactics, Persia relied on cavalry instead of infantry, including both heavy, armored lancers and highly mobile mounted bowmen.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
The Green Huntsman is the account of what happens to a -wealthy young Parisian of republican sympathies and aristocratic tastes during a tour as a second lieutenant of lancers in the provincial city of Nancy.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had the same message at Senegal's three-century-old port of St.-Louis, where calico-dressed women pounded tom-toms and pantalooned lancers held aloft the French tricolor as well as Mali's red, yellow, and green flag.
From Time Magazine Archive
Escorted by prancing Moorish lancers, a black limousine drove up to the Cortes building, and from it stepped a brisk and confident Francisco Franco.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once a company of lancers appeared, but they turned southward.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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