mousquetaire
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mousquetaire
From French
Example Sentences
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And so saying, the mousquetaire entered the room with a tolerably firm step, in full uniform and belted as usual.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
Soldiers, I see, by your accoutrements, and one a mousquetaire.
From In the Day of Adversity by John Bloundelle-Burton
Miss Rylance came back, dressed as carefully as if she had been going for a morning lounge in Hyde Park, hat and feather, pongee sunshade, mousquetaire gloves.
From The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
"A mousquetaire resuscitated," said Mademoiselle Viefville, in her broken English, as one who had come in the same boat as the first-named, thrust his whiskered and mustachoed visage above the rail of the gangway.
From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by James Fenimore Cooper
A mousquetaire? or a troubadour in blue satin trunks and cloak, white silk tights and shoes and a Grecian helmet, like Mr. Snodgrass at Mrs. Leo Hunter's fete champetre?
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
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