mousquetaire
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A mousquetaire, his piece loaded with a lettre de cachet, went about a fortnight ago to the notary who keeps the parliamentary registers, and demanded them.
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- A musketeer.
- A turn-over collar, usually of plain starched linen, and broad, worn by women about 1850.
- A cloak of cloth, trimmed with ribbons or narrow bands of velvet, and having large buttons, worn by women about 1855.
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A mousquetaire, his piece loaded with a lettre de cachet, went about a fortnight ago to the notary who keeps the parliamentary registers, and demanded them.
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 -
There was a mousquetaire that had it round his neck--such a big mousquetaire, as big as General Webb.
— The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne -
"M. le mousquetaire," continued Jonathan, "told me to take you both on board my canoe, and bring you to him."
— The Man in the Iron Mask -
French mousquetaire, he immediately commenced, --
— Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since -
With a long vividly striped stockinet neck wrinkling like a mousquetaire glove, the neat small head that so closely fitted his own neat small head, the tweaked, interrogative ears, -- Beautiful-Lovely, the Wolf Hound, reared up majestically in his own chair.
— Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs
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- French: see musketeer.
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