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fusilier

[ UK /fjˈuːslɪɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. (formerly) a British infantryman armed with a light flintlock musket

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  • Significantly, the route he has chosen will mirror that taken by his late father, Fred, who was a fusilier in World War Two.
  • The only person who comes forward to defend the McCanns seems to be an "army wife, army mother" who posts as Vancysgu, citing a book called The Skinback Fusiliers, which the Arrsers also delight in slagging off because it portrays trainees at Catterick Garrison in Yorkshire as "a gang of nasty little plonkers". Hugh Muir's diary
  • In the back is a group of Welsh fusiliers, and here's me, a ragged scarecrow creature from the swamp, an image from a schlock nightmare.
  • The fusilier added that his family had been anxious about his possible deployment in Iraq since he received his call up notice in October, but they were supportive and proud of his role as a reservist.
  • ‘I spoke to fusiliers whose parents live in Halifax One of the most moving experiences for me was going to Arras in France, to the re-interment of two fusiliers who had died in World War I. The corpses had been found as a result of the War Graves Commission; there're still many people missing.Road, Whitworth and Spotland,’ he said.
  • The caves in the granite cliffs were teeming with fry and there were times when I couldn't see my buddy through clouds of fusiliers, grunts and snappers.
  • Schools of snappers and pompano blotted out the sparkling sun, while trevally and fusiliers whipped about in a frenzy.
  • One of the most moving experiences for me was going to Arras in France, to the re-interment of two fusiliers who had died in World War I.
  • There are fish everywhere - mixed shoals of snappers, fusiliers and grunts flowing in and out of the wreck.
  • Regiments of fusiliers were assigned to guard the artillery trains, in which large quantities of gunpowder were stored and transported for the army's ordnance.
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