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Lancer   Listen
noun
Lancer  n.  
1.
One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations.
2.
A lancet. (Obs.)
3.
pl. (Dancing) A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement. (Written also lanciers)





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"Lancer" Quotes from Famous Books



... There is no one who will profit more. That reminds me. There was one little question I had to ask. A friend of mine has seen you on your way back and forth to Camberley three or four times lately. You lunched the other day with the colonel of one of your Lancer regiments. How did you ...
— The Double Traitor • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... favored Lancer, the label: Prude, under which we have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection. Mademoiselle Gillenormand was a sort of twilight soul. Prudery is ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... you to do that. Especially, there is a woman among them, who passes as the wife of the lancer whom the captain killed yesterday. She is dressed like a lancer, and she tortured me the most yesterday, and suggested burning me, and it was she who set fire to the wood. Oh! the wretch, the brute.... Ah! how I am suffering! My loins, my arms!" ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume III (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant
... notice-board on top, saying, 'THIS IS LE SARS,' or 'POZIERES,' or whatever its name was. Anyway, in this village I found a Divisional H.Q., four Brigade H.Q.'s, and oddities of all sorts sitting one on top of t'other waiting for the next thing to happen. The next thing was a single wounded lancer who happened in about four in the morning with the glad tidings that Bosch tanks were advancing on us". Questioned further he admitted that he had only actually seen one and that in the dark. But it was the great-grandfather of all tanks, according to the chap; it stood twenty foot high; it 'roared ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Apr 2, 1919 • Various


Words linked to "Lancer" :   cavalryman, trooper


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