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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

Swordsman D’Artagnan arrives in Paris chasing his dreams to become a king’s musketeer, where he commits many a faux pas and gets robbed, among other indignities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

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

The other circumstance was still more appalling; the space behind, left vacant by his advance, was occupied no longer by foot or horse, by treasure-bearer or prisoner, by Spanish musketeer or Tlascalan spearman.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird

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

The saying "three is a crowd" seems not only to apply to "The Three Investigators" and the three musketeers.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024

“Four musketeers are by definition stronger,” Lévy said.

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021

“Why, I expect it is like The Three Musketeers, by Mr. Alexandre Dumas. There are four musketeers in it, despite the title. Poetic license, perhaps?”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood


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