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musketeer

[ muhs-ki-teer ]

noun

  1. a soldier armed with a musket.


musketeer

/ ËŒ³¾ÊŒ²õ°ìɪˈ³Ùɪə /

noun

  1. (formerly) a soldier armed with a musket
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Origin of musketeer1

1580–90; musket + -eer; compare French mousquetaire, equivalent to mousquet musket + -aire -ary
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The three musketeers, meanwhile, continue their fascinating and painfully realistic friendship dance.

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

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Swordsman D’Artagnan arrives in Paris chasing his dreams to become a king’s musketeer, where he commits many a faux pas and gets robbed, among other indignities.

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A lone musketeer of disruption, he spouts mantras about the glory of “breaking stuff,†and cloaks his bottomless greed and shallow narcissism in showy messianic robes.

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“In movies, on TV, musketeers are always white.â€

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