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• Three Musketeers, The
  Three Musketeers, The

  noun

  a historical novel (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père.
• The Three Musketeers
  The Three Musketeers

  (1844) A novel by the French author Alexandre Dumas, set in seventeenth-century France. The Three Musketeers are comrades of the central character, D'Artagnan, a man younger than they, who becomes a musketeer after performing many daring deeds. The motto of the Three Musketeers is “All for one and one for all.”

Three Musketeers, The

American  

noun

1. French Les Trois Mousquetaires.  a historical novel (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père.

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The Three Musketeers Cultural  

1. (1844) A novel by the French author Alexandre Dumas, set in seventeenth-century France. The Three Musketeers are comrades of the central character, D'Artagnan, a man younger than they, who becomes a musketeer after performing many daring deeds. The motto of the Three Musketeers is “All for one and one for all.”

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The Three Musketeers

She won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in 1974's The Three Musketeers and was nominated again in 1987 for the film Right to Die.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2023

The Three Musketeers remain positive about some elements of the post-crisis programme.

From The Guardian ● May 29, 2019

For all his ego, Ibrahimovic does his best to blend in around his teammates — not easy when you're 6-foot-5 and look like D'Artagnan from "The Three Musketeers."

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018

That this nine-year run as The Three Musketeers was ticking down like a time bomb, and after the explosion the landscape was going to look dramatically different.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2016

“Why, I expect it is like The Three Musketeers, by Mr. Alexandre Dumas. There are four musketeers in it, despite the title. Poetic license, perhaps?”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood