musketeer

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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

Yet it was impossible to keep aloof from him for long, he was such a joyous, dashing, carry-your-outworks pattern of a musketeer.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus