1858 O. W. Holmes in Feb. 459/2 Cottage, garden-beds, posies, grenadier-like rows of seedling onions,..all are gone.
1878 R. Browning Two Poets of Croisic in 132 Grenadier-like, marching to assault.
1937 H. McBride Let. 4 July in (2000) 292 They are in [the] charge of a fierce, grenadier-like woman, who treats them like school girls.