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Mousquetaire

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Mous`que`taire´
n.1.A musketeer, esp. one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries, conspicuous both for their daring and their fine dress.
2.A mosquetaire cuff or glove, or other article of dress fancied to resemble those worn by the French mosquetaires.
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"Monsieur le mousquetaire," said he, "are you a gentleman?
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The big shoulders, black brows and black mousquetaire swagger of Flambeau were a great contrast.
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On the return of the Bourbons, one of his old friends, the Marquis de Pombreton, formerly lieutenant in the Black mousquetaires, returned to him--so he said--twelve hundred pistoles which he had lent to the marquis for the purpose of emigrating.
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