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musketeer

[muhs-ki-teer] / ˌmʌs kɪˈtɪər /


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More than 350 years after the death of legendary French musketeer d'Artagnan, remains have been found under the floor of a Dutch church that may well have been his.

From BBC Mar. 25, 2026

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

Here’s William Fotheringham’s pocket guide to today’s stage, which starts at Pau - birthplace of Isaac de Porthau, real-life musketeer and inspiration for Alexandre Dumas’s Porthos, fact fans - and ends at Laruns.

From The Guardian Sep. 6, 2020

The story finally kicks into gear when the musketeer Athos, played by Ben Cunis, reads a letter about his son’s misfortune even as we watch it playing out in a gorgeous slow-motion battle.

From Washington Post May 16, 2016

In a flask the musketeer carried his coarse powder for loading.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

"I often called them the three musketeers," Liu said.

From Science Daily Aug. 29, 2026

On view were hastily brushed, large canvases of musketeers, toreadors, atelier scenes and cavorting couples.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

The three musketeers, meanwhile, continue their fascinating and painfully realistic friendship dance.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 2, 2025

His Phillipe, on the other hand, is movingly pitiable — terrified and vulnerable when the righteous musketeers arrive and remove the iron mask from his sun-deprived face.

From Washington Post May 16, 2016

I would say we were like the three musketeers, or the three amigos, but that's so played and has been said a million times.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds




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