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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.
- Dumas's three musketeers are archetypal Gascons.
- Recall also that the three musketeers are fallen idols, prototypes of the grizzled gunslingers found in so many Westerns.
- The musketeers romantically portrayed by Dumas in the 19th century reflected the flamboyance and panache expected of them and their kind.
- It is the acme of romanticism; I devoted most of a year's worth of high school study halls to it, along with all of the volumes of Dumas's Three Musketeers series, which I inherited from my grandmother.
- Or you could go swashbuckling in "The Three Musketeers" or "Treasure Island," where Captain Flint was "the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed. Books With Strong Male Characters
- They were like his Three Musketeers. Christianity Today
- The English Civil War Society will re-enact the fierce fighting between Roundheads and Cavaliers with musketeers and pikemen in the High Street at 6pm on Saturday June 19 and 3pm on Sunday June 20.
- 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
- That's because the main plot is not the action or the treachery or the historical import, it's the friendship among D'Artagnan and the three Musketeers. Archive 2006-12-01