See Also: musketeer(dictionary)
musketeer(dictionary)

musketeer (iou)



musketeer noun. Also musqueteer. L16.
[from MUSKET noun2 + -EER, after French MOUSQUETAIRE etc.]
Hist. A soldier armed with a musket. Also, a member of either of two bodies forming part of the household troops of the French king in the 17th and 18th cents.
Phrases: three musketeers [from translation of French les trois mousquetaires by Alexandre Dumas pere] three close associates, three inseparable friends.
Comb.: musketeer gauntlet, musketeer glove = MOUSQUETAIRE glove.