Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A heavy-armed foot-soldier.
Examples
“As I said "fantassin", I am recalling this guys words after nearly 50 years!”
“In the french regiments the Chaplain was a Catholic priest and it was required that the fantassin the common infantryman was Catholic. the foreign regiments were authorized to have a Chaplain of the common faith of the soldiers, usually Lutheran for the German and some Swiss regiments, the Irish, Scot and Italian Regiments had Catholic Chaplains.”
“La paie est de cinq aspers pour un fantassin, de huit pour un cavalier.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“The line infantryman or fantassin;* continued to form the backbone of the Imperial Army, as he had previously served its revolutionary predecessors.”
“An inexperienced recruit might easily double-load after an unnoticed misfire, or forget to withdraw his ramrod before pulling the trigger; similarly, a clumsy or malingering fantassin could easily contrive to spill most of the powder charge onto the ground and thus avoid the shoulder-dislocating kick of the weapon.”
“Up and up we went through the grounds, a few unburned old bodies in rags of uniform still discernible here and there as the lantern swung past them, a musician in sky-blue, a fantassin and officer-of-the-guard in scarlet, forming a cross, with domestics of the palace in red-and-orange.”
“While cavalier and fantassin dash in upon their track.”
“However, they have a mainly beautiful country and don't give a fcuk who they upset in looking after No1 .... shame we can't adopt a more similar attitude. fantassin:”
“Well, when we locked up a B-2 with a Rapier at Farnborough, the dummy spitting by the USAF top knob had to be seen to be believed. fantassin:”
“ARRSE alert! fantassin is discussing the suitability and cost effectiveness of the A400M in French service.”
Lists
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fustilarian, fusillation, fustian, futurology, fusiform, futurition, fusee, fuscous, fusain, furunculoid, futtock, furibund and 418 more...
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Soldiers and Sailors
Types and nicknames.
highlander, guardswoman, foot soldier, lobsterback, man-at-arms, grenadier, billman, redcoat, fusilier, guardsman, marine, trooper and 95 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Historical Military Terms of Interest
Many (if not all) of these terms were selected from A pocket dictionary, for military officers, containing a definition of all the tactical terms now in use, with other matter belonging to the art ...
zig-zags, yeoman, xerxes, xeiff, xenophon, worm, watch-word, windage, wheeling, wad-hock, wadding, volley and 242 more...
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Military
skunk works, armiger, coistrel, chasseur, bogatyr, vexillum, vivandière, cantiniere, sutler, fantassin, habergeon, cascabel and 65 more...
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chained_bear "fr. a foot soldier." Oct 9, 2008