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musketeer|mʌskɪˈtɪə(r)|
Forms: 6 mosquettier, musketire, 6–7 musketear(e, muscat(t)ier, 6–8 musket(t)ier, musquetier, 7 muscateer, muskat(e)ire, musketer(e, musketteer(e, musketter, musqueteir(e, musquetiere, musquetteer, -ier, 7–9 musqueteer, 6– musketeer. See also mousquetaire.
[f. musket2 + -eer1, after F. mousquetaire, It. moschettiere. Cf. Sp. mosquetero.]
a. Hist. A soldier armed with a musket.
1590Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. iii. ii, It must haue..Parapets to hide the Muscatiers. 1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 10 b, Mosquettiers. 1598Barret Theor. Warres iii. i. 35 The musketier is to cary his musket vpon his left or right shoulder. 1604E. Grimstone Hist. Siege Ostend 170 In them were 2500 musketers and small shott. 1639Conceits, Clinches, Flashes & Whimzies No. 121 Muscattiers of all other Souldiers are the most lazie: for they are alwayes at their rest. 1663Butler Hud. i. ii. 567 Did they coyn Piss-pots, Bowls, and Flaggons, Int' Officers of Horse and Dragoons; And into Pikes and Musqueteers Stamp Beakers, Cups, and Porringers? 1689Andros Tracts I. 175 Except he would accept of a Guard of Two Muskateires to wayte upon him. 1707Reflex. upon Ridicule 74 'Tis not for a Commander to act the Part of a Musquetier. 1777Watson Philip II, xiii. (1839) 257 On the left his cavalry, flanked by a body of musqueteers. 1814Scott Wav. xxxv, Waverley, having mounted his horse, with a musketeer leading it [etc.].
b. musketeer gauntlet, musketeer glove: see mousquetaire 2.
1922Joyce Ulysses 458 Fawn musketeer gauntlets. 1968Guardian 26 July 7/3 There were musketeer gloves and gaiters of sequins. |