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noun

Mousquetaire n.

A musketeer, esp. one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries, conspicuous both for their daring and their fine dress.

A mosquetaire cuff or glove, or other article of dress fancied to resemble those worn by the French mosquetaires.

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Etymology of 'Mousquetaire'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mousquetaire" Quotes from Famous Books

... Wolf Hound Flame chose a Giraffe's head. Certain anatomical similarities seemed to make the choice wise. With a long vividly striped stockinet neck wrinkling like a mousquetaire glove, the neat small head that so closely fitted his own neat small head, the tweaked, interrogative ears,—Beautiful-Lovely, the Wolf Hound, reared up majestically in his own chair. He also, once convinced that the mask was not a gas-box, resigned himself to the inevitable, ...

— Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... came back, dressed as carefully as if she had been going for a morning lounge in Hyde Park, hat and feather, pongee sunshade, mousquetaire gloves. The Wendovers all wore their gloves in their pockets, and cultivated blisters on the palms of their hands, as a mark of distinction, which implied great feats in rowing, or the pulling in ...

— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon