mousquetaire
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mousquetaire
From French
Example Sentences
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What hope was there that a mousquetaire should obtain aught from him that night; should even be able to approach him?
From In the Day of Adversity by John Bloundelle-Burton
"My child, whose life would have been taken to-night by five desperadoes had it not been for this honest mousquetaire who, by Heaven's providence, happened to be riding my road."
From In the Day of Adversity by John Bloundelle-Burton
That peculiarity of being a novelist only par interim, much more than Aramis was a mousquetaire, appears, even in Julie, so glaringly as to be dangerous and almost fatal.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
Small felt bonnet, with bunch of ribbons; Nacaret velvet dress; trowsers of cambric muslin, with embroideries; gaiters of black cloth, and mousquetaire pardessus, trimmed with gimp or lace, put on flat.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
"Monsieur does not, in truth, know?" she replied, with a glance at the customers—one a mousquetaire, himself en route to Bar to join his regiment, and the other evidently a shopkeeper of the place.
From In the Day of Adversity by John Bloundelle-Burton
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