mousquetaire

Borrowed from Middle French mousquetaire. Doublet of musketeer.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmuːskɪˈtɛə(ɹ)/, /-kə-/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

mousquetaire (plural mousquetaires)

1. (historical) A musketeer, especially one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries, famed for their daring and their fine clothing.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

     [H]is adversary, swelling with rage, cocked his hat fiercely in his face, and fixing his hands in his sides, pronounced with the most imperious tone, “Heark ye, Mr. Round Periwig, you must know that I am a mousquetaire.”

2. A mousquetaire cuff or mousquetaire glove, or other article of dress imagined to resemble those worn by the French mosquetaires.
3. (historical) A woman's cloak trimmed with ribbons, with large buttons, fashionable in the mid-19th century.
4. (historical) A broad turnover linen collar worn in the mid-19th century.

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Mousquetaire”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 787, column 1.

Inherited from Middle French. By surface analysis, mousquet +‎ -aire.

• IPA^(key): /mus.kə.tɛʁ/

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mousquetaire m (plural mousquetaires)

1. musketeer

• “mousquetaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.