Carabineer
carbineer.
Historical Examples
The same shell killed eleven horses in the carabineer lines.
Four Months Besieged H. H. S. Pearse
And she sighed as she looked up at the picture of her carabineer.
The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray
This carabineer in disguise was very good-humoured, and kept me company as far as Novara.
My Ten Years’ Imprisonment Silvio Pellico
Not one turban was seen between the battlements, not one carabineer’s bayonet in the intrenchment.
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXII. Various
It was he that wore the carabineer’s uniform when they took the Duca di Fornasco’s bailiff.
Corleone F. Marion Crawford
Unless you will carry some weapon, I shall have you escorted to Santa Vittoria and back by a carabineer.’
Corleone F. Marion Crawford
This dashing exploit was attended with the loss of only one Scots Grey and one carabineer wounded.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. V (of VI) Louis Creswicke
He was the son of a fruit merchant, and served as a carabineer in the French army.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Joel Munsell
Two sentries were in boxes on either side of the royal gate, and one carabineer was in the doorway.
The Eternal City Hall Caine
“Certainly, Excellency,” said the carabineer, and with a salute he led the way by a side door to the offices on the floor above.
The Eternal City Hall Caine
noun
variants of carbineer
n.
“mounted soldier armed with a carbine,” 1670s, from French carabinier (17c.), from carabine “carbine” (see carbine). Italian carabinieri “soldiers serving as a police force” is the same word.
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