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UK
/mˌʌskɪtˈiə/
]
[ US /ˌməskəˈtiɹ/ ]
[ US /ˌməskəˈtiɹ/ ]
NOUN
- a foot soldier armed with a musket
How To Use musketeer In A Sentence
- Giles, aware that Warne was more musketeer in approach than monk, cleverly tossed one higher and shorter as Warne advanced to smite another blow.
- The re-enactments by members of the English Civil War Society will feature musketeers, pikemen and cavalry, with the occasional cannon shot.
- At 06.27 hours on 1 January 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate face down on the steering wheel, hoping the judgement would not be too heavy upon him. Excerpt: White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- ‘Indeed my Lady, it was taken from a French musketeer just minutes after I had killed him,’ he swung it in the air several times, watching with a boyish smile as the nuns cringed.
- Pikemen stood on guard with their 16 feet long weapons and musketeers cleaned their matchlock muskets ready for the later mock battles.
- Wisconsin patiently worked the shot clock and even led by a point with about 9: 10 remaining before the Musketeers cracked through. USATODAY.com
- He engaged in cloak-and-dagger operations for Louis XIII and then for Louis XIV, the Sun King, who appointed him to lead the musketeers in 1658. D'Artagnan Buried in The Netherlands?
- The series follows the life of the musketeers as they train at the musketeer's academy in order to protect France's Sun King, who became monarch at the age of five.
- The Musketeers' life in Paris was often tumultuous, even if strict discipline continued to reign back at the casern.
- In the 17th century, the musketeer and his relatively sophisticated weapon was protected from being ridden down by cavalry by protective screens of pikemen.