mousquetaires

• If your opera gloves are mousquetaires, the popular style with a three-button wrist opening, you can partially remove them by undoing the buttons and pulling your hand out through the opening.

Lisa Mirza Grotts: Opera Glove Etiquette Lisa Mirza Grotts 2011

• If your opera gloves are mousquetaires, the popular style with a three-button wrist opening, you can partially remove them by undoing the buttons and pulling your hand out through the opening.

Lisa Mirza Grotts: Opera Glove Etiquette Lisa Mirza Grotts 2011

• If your opera gloves are mousquetaires, the popular style with a three-button wrist opening, you can partially remove them by undoing the buttons and pulling your hand out through the opening.

Lisa Mirza Grotts: Opera Glove Etiquette Lisa Mirza Grotts 2011

She said that in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the mousquetaires.

Les Miserables 2008

We amused ourselves once, a few good fellows and I, for a dozen or more years, like mousquetaires, black, red, and gray; we denied ourselves nothing, not even an occasional filibustering here and there.

A Marriage Contract 2007

At this, each gentleman of the party rose, and, drawing his rapier, vowed to cut his way through the colonel and all his mousquetaires, or die, if need be, by the side of

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

When the party arrived in the street, they found, sure enough, a dreadful company of mousquetaires, as they seemed, ready to oppose their passage.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

The only hint I found by googling and Yandexing was that the same Russian word was used to translate passe-dix in Chapter 32, "Un diner de procureur," of Dumas's Les Trois mousquetaires: "plumer quelque peu les jeunes clercs en leur apprenant la bassette, le passe-dix et le lansquenet dans leurs plus fines pratiques"—as this translation has it, "to pluck the clerks a little by teaching them bassette, passedix, and lansquenet."

languagehat.com: GALBIK, PASSE-DIX, PASSAGE. 2005

This adventure was not so private but that it reached the ears of Mr. Jolter by the canal of some English gentlemen who were present when it happened; and the governor, who entertained a most dreadful idea of the mousquetaires, being alarmed at a quarrel, the consequence of which might be fatal to his charge, waited on the

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

Even the non-commissioned officers and privates in these corps were not considered as ordinary mercenaries, but rather approached to the rank of the French mousquetaires, being regarded in the light of cadets, who performed the duties of rank-and-file with the prospect of obtaining commissions in case of distinguishing themselves.

Old Mortality 2004