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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

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

Did you not know that an overcharged gun would knock the musketeer over by its recoil?

From Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

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

Ultimately, he finds himself in conflict with three musketeers who each challenge him to a duel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

“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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