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

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

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 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

Now when Captain Brandis, and the musketeer who had packed up his things, returned to the place of rendezvous, all were gone, and there were only a few weapons remaining there.

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