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Definition of Carabinier
1. Noun. A soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine.
Definition of Carabinier
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of carabineer) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carabinier
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carabinier
Literary usage of Carabinier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Queens of the French Stage by Hugh Noel Williams (1905)
""A simple carabinier took the English general, Ligonier, prisoner; he is to them
what Marechal de Saxe is to us, if such a comparison were possible. ..."
2. Some Account of the Military, Political, and Social Life of the Right Hon by Walter Evelyn Manners (1899)
"The carabinier gallantly declined the booty, and said that all he required was
Sir John's sword. Louis XV. later received the anglicized Frenchman, ..."
3. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"( Terme dejen.) Il ne Jait que carabiner, lie stakes only a small sum now and then.
(Milu) Voyez Tirailler. carabinier, t. in. carabinier. ..."
4. Dictionnaire anglais-franca̧is: et français-anglais by Abel Boyer, Nicholas Salmon (1821)
"carabinier, sm carabinier. CARACOL, s. ra. spiral. Escalier ta ça racol, spiral
or winding stair-case. CARACOLE, s. f caracole or wheeling about. ..."
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