单词 | musketeer |
释义 | musketeern. Now historical. a. A soldier armed with a musket. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > musket musketeer1590 snaphance1645 fusee1650 mousquetaire1706 jezailchee1862 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. H3v It must haue..Parapets to hide the Muscatiers. 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons f. 10v The forraine Enemie seeking to inuade vs..should with foure or fiue thousand Mosquettiers and some Caliuerers, bee repulsed. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 35 The musketier is to cary his musket vpon his left or right shoulder. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend 170 In them were 2500 musketers and small shott. 1639 Conceits, Clinches, Flashes & Whimzies No. 121 Muscattiers of all other Souldiers are the most lazie: for they are alwayes at their rest. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 115 Did they coyn Piss-pots, Bouls and Flaggons, Int' Officers of Horse and Dragoons; And into Pikes and Musquetiers Stamp Beakers, Cups, and Porringers? 1689 J. Fayerweather & N. Williams Information 24 Jan. in Andros Tracts (1868) I. 175 Except he would accept of a Guard of Two Muskateires to wayte upon him. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 74 'Tis not for a Commander to act the Part of a Musquetier. 1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. xiii. 406 On the left his cavalry, flanked by a body of musqueteers. 1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose vi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 145 You will be sure to keep your musqueteers in advance of your stand of pikes. 1870 C. R. Markham Life Ld. Fairfax vii. 61 A foot regiment was..formed in solid square battalions ten deep, called tertias, the pikes in the centre, and the musketeers on either flank. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xiii. 216 There's word that his musketeers hae shot the Irish in rows on the Yarrow haughs. 1988 D. A. Thomas Compan. Royal Navy iii. 270/1 One such [boat] was fired upon by Turkish musketeers. b. French History. A member of either of two bodies of soldiers forming part of the household troops of the French king in the 17th and 18th centuries. Also: a person dressed like a musketeer. See also mousquetaire n. 1.In later use frequently with allusion to the characters in Alexandre Dumas père's novel Les Trois Mousquetaires (1844). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > lifeguard or bodyguard > [noun] lifeguard-mana1657 musketeer1696 bodyguard1703 palace guard1729 1696 tr. G. de Courtilz de Sandras Mem. Count de Rochefort 144 If they had got together but ten Pistoles, we should never have seen one..of the first Company of the Grand Musqueteers. 1726 tr. G. Daniel Hist. France V. 118 Mons. d'Artagnan..of the first company of musqueteers, was slain. 1798 J. O'Keeffe Tantara-rara ii. v. 388 (stage direct.) Enter Andrew, (as Duke), Pickle, (as Commissaire) and confederates, (habited as Musketeers). a1845 W. Barrymore Dog of Montargis ii. i. 21 Assemble a company of Musketeers, search the forest round. 1891 G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism v. 133 We find that the franker and healthier a boy is, the more certain is he to prefer pirates and highwaymen, or Dumas musketeers, to ‘pillars of society’ as his favourite heroes of romance. 1919 Mod. Lang. Notes 34 208 His claim to be acting merely as the editor of papers left by the famous musketeer [sc. D'Artagnan]. 1991 A. Myers Murder at Masque ix. 190 She..seemed to be dancing with a matador. She must be under the impression it was him. Moreover, there was a Musketeer here, trying to share in his glory. Compounds musketeer gauntlet n. rare = musketeer glove n. ΚΠ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 442 Fawn musketeer gauntlets. musketeer glove n. rare = mousquetaire glove n. at mousquetaire n. and adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1968 Guardian 26 July 7/3 There were musketeer gloves and gaiters of sequins. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1590 |
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