cuirassiers
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The show, he explained, displayed “a human mosaic of horsemen: Indians, Cossacks, cowboys, Bedouins, Mexicans, cuirassiers, Boers, Britons, 300 strong.”
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2012
Then off all clattered, escorted by mounted cuirassiers of the ancient House of Savoy in gleaming breastplates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Queen Elena left the Quirinal Palace first in a State berlin, with a company of cuirassiers riding before.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has stepped up pomp and circumstance of the Quirinal Palace itself, which is guarded by 120 of the most imposing soldiers in Italy, the 6-ft.-6-in. cuirassiers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some tall cuirassiers and footmen in the anteroom—no chamberlains nor pages—nothing like the glittering crowd of gold lace and uniforms one usually sees in the anteroom of a palace.
From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King
