hussars
Example Sentences
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Opposition supporters marched behind horsemen dressed as hussars -- Hungary's historic light cavalry formation.
From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026
Vas, the local activist, acknowledged that the lake has dried out before, noting that in 1863 the Hungarian hussars trained with their horses in the lake bed.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 14, 2021
All this is chorally amplified, as in a Gilbert and Sullivan comedy; all the village girls forget their local sweethearts in favor of the military men until the hussars move on.
From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2014
But whatever they are, cowards or brave men, Nimier's hussars live on the page, right up to the bullet that gets them.
From Time Magazine Archive
His capture of Stettin with two regiments of hussars was specially noteworthy.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
