beau sabreurn.
/bəʊ saˈbrəː//bəʊ səˈbrəː/ A sobriquet for Joachim Murat (1767–1815), a famous French cavalry officer, brother-in-law of Napoleon I; hence transferred: a fine soldier, a handsome or dashing adventurer.
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1834 Baboo & Other Tales Descr. Soc. India I. vii. 113 Handsome, gallant, and young, he held the place that Murat did in the armies of Italy, and might have been called our ‘beau sabreur’. Although, like Murat, without many pretensions to genius, his soldierly qualities invested him with a kind of romance.
1865 ‘Ouida’ Strathmore I. i. 9 The Beau Sabreur, as he had been nicknamed, à la Murat, was soft as silk in the hands of a beauty.
1888 Athenæum 5 May 573/1 [His] long fair hair, bound in braids about his head, after the fashion of his people (a fashion revived by the beaux sabreurs of Napoleon's time).
1919 G. B. Shaw Playlets of War 234 We women admire..the heroic warrior, the beau sabreur.
1947 P. G. Wodehouse Full Moon i. 14 The latter's sister..considered that beau sabreur and man about town a blot on the escutcheon of a proud family.
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