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musketeer

[muhs-ki-teer] / ˌmʌs kɪˈtɪər /


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More than 350 years after the death of legendary French musketeer d'Artagnan, remains have been found under the floor of a Dutch church that may well have been his.

From BBC Mar. 25, 2026

Brosnan’s take on Louis XIV is a velvet-clad, swashbuckling royal with a magnificent mane and plenty of eyeliner, a sort of modernist musketeer.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 20, 2022

Here’s William Fotheringham’s pocket guide to today’s stage, which starts at Pau - birthplace of Isaac de Porthau, real-life musketeer and inspiration for Alexandre Dumas’s Porthos, fact fans - and ends at Laruns.

From The Guardian Sep. 6, 2020

The story finally kicks into gear when the musketeer Athos, played by Ben Cunis, reads a letter about his son’s misfortune even as we watch it playing out in a gorgeous slow-motion battle.

From Washington Post May 16, 2016

The practised musketeer, in the reign of Elizabeth, could hardly fire his piece once in twenty minutes; the merest novice can fire the repeating rifle twenty times in one minute.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

On view were hastily brushed, large canvases of musketeers, toreadors, atelier scenes and cavorting couples.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

The three musketeers, meanwhile, continue their fascinating and painfully realistic friendship dance.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 2, 2025

The saying "three is a crowd" seems not only to apply to "The Three Investigators" and the three musketeers.

From Science Daily Mar. 25, 2024

“Four musketeers are by definition stronger,” Lévy said.

From New York Times Aug. 31, 2021

I would say we were like the three musketeers, or the three amigos, but that's so played and has been said a million times.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds




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