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mousquetaire
- /ˌmuːskɪˈtɛə(ɹ)/
- /-kə-/
Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
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Borrowed from Middle French mousquetaire. Doublet of musketeer.
noun mousquetaires
- A musketeer, especially one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries, famed for their daring and their fine clothing. [H]is adversary, swelling with rage, cocked his hat fiercely in his face, and fixing his hands in his sides, pronounced with the most imperious tone, “Heark ye, Mr. Round Periwig, you must know that I am a mousquetaire.”
- A mousquetaire cuff or mousquetaire glove, or other article of dress imagined to resemble those worn by the French mosquetaires.
- A woman's cloak trimmed with ribbons, with large buttons, fashionable in the mid-19th century.
- A broad turnover linen collar worn in the mid-19th century.
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title = {mousquetaire},
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