Meaning of mousquetaire | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A musketeer, especially one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries, famed for their daring and their fine clothing.
   historical
2. A mousquetaire cuff or mousquetaire glove, or other article of dress imagined to resemble those worn by the French mosquetaires.
3. A woman's cloak trimmed with ribbons, with large buttons, fashionable in the mid-19th century.
   historical
4. A broad turnover linen collar worn in the mid-19th century.
   historical

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Examples

“[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.””

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