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

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 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

Later, when a Latin scholar, he was again taken prisoner by the soldiers, was made an officer's servant, and then a musketeer.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav