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musketeers

  • plural
    of musketeer.
    musketeer
    noun
    a soldier armed with a musket.

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On view were hastily brushed, large canvases of musketeers, toreadors, atelier scenes and cavorting couples.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

The three musketeers, meanwhile, continue their fascinating and painfully realistic friendship dance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2025

The saying "three is a crowd" seems not only to apply to "The Three Investigators" and the three musketeers.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024

His Phillipe, on the other hand, is movingly pitiable — terrified and vulnerable when the righteous musketeers arrive and remove the iron mask from his sun-deprived face.

From Washington Post ● May 16, 2016

We used to hold out, me and Sammy and Junior and T. Like the four musketeers.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon