musketeer
Example Sentences
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Brosnan’s take on Louis XIV is a velvet-clad, swashbuckling royal with a magnificent mane and plenty of eyeliner, a sort of modernist musketeer.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2022
D’Artagnan is “the musketeer team, you know,” Daguin said, referencing the swashbuckling character after whom she named her company.
From Washington Post • May 23, 2020
The instigator is that musketeer of the digital age, the whistleblower.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2016
The Daily Telegraph says the report into the case laid blame on "musketeer" midwives who were on a quest to pursue "natural childbirth at any cost".
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2015
Take it away!'—and gave it to a musketeer.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.