muleteer

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I might have been tempted to linger by the way but for the intense sunshine and for the fact that the muleteer was an exceptionally dull dog--a dusky youth of the taciturn and wooden-faced Spanish variety, whose anti-Hellenic profile irked me, in that landscape.

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  • At Lyons we waited several days for the muleteer, who carried the silver cup and basin, as well as our other baggage; our lodging was in an abbey of the Cardinals. —  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
  • There had been trouble in the house of Paolo the ex-muleteer, and Baccio's already serious mind had been awed by the sight of death. —  Fra Bartolommeo
  • Albertinelli was also to have a mass said yearly in the Church of S. Pier Gattolini for the soul of Paolo the muleteer, and to use two pounds of wax candles thereat. —  Fra Bartolommeo
  • The muleteer was afraid, and told us, that, if we met any of them on the road, we should be murdered. —  AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MADAME GUYON
  • The dogged determination of the Catalan muleteer, the quick eye and resourceful mind of the mountaineer, the ready wit of the Gaul, the kindly heart of the Latin, and an intelligence entirely his own, such are some of the natural gifts of General Joffre. —  GENERAL JOFFRE
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  1. French muletier, from Old French, from mulet, diminutive of mul, mule; see mule1.

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  1. Early modern English muleter, muliter; from French muletier (= Spanish mulatero, muletero = Portuguese mulateiro = Italian mulattiere), from mulet, a mule: see mulet.
 

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