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musketeer
[ muhs-ki-teer ]
musketeer
/ ˌmʌskɪˈtɪə /
noun
- (formerly) a soldier armed with a musket
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Word History and Origins
Origin of musketeer1
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Example Sentences
But third musketeer Chris Bosh refused to miss out on the action.
David Lincoln Ross pays tribute—and shares a recipe for a winter warmer perfect for a musketeer.
Musketeer Oil heiress Eleanor Ritchey had a tendency to accumulate things.
It took 16 years before the last survivor, a mutt named Musketeer, expired.
M. de Bourbonne, a retired musketeer in easy circumstances, was well connected.
He knew them to be his wife's brothers, one a dragoon, the other a musketeer.
In the same enclosure are two figures made up of Maximilian armour, and a bowman and a musketeer of the Earl of Worcester's time.
The exception was Sergeant Lawson, who, after slaying four men with his own hand, was shot down at close range by a musketeer.
Encounter-battles became more frequent than “pitched” battles, and in these the musketeer was at a great advantage.
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