Definition of Pistoleers

1. Noun. (plural of pistoleer) ¹

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Definition of Pistoleers

1. pistoleer [n] - See also: pistoleer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pistoleers

pistle
pistles
pistol
pistol-shot femoral sound
pistol-shot sound
pistol-whip
pistol-whipping
pistol grip
pistol grips
pistol shrimp
pistolade
pistolades
pistole
pistoled
pistoleer
pistoleers (current term)
pistolero
pistoleros
pistoles
pistolet
pistolets
pistolier
pistoliers
pistoling
pistolled
pistolling
pistols
pistols at dawn
piston
piston chamber

Literary usage of Pistoleers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard of Living in Japan by Kokichi Morimoto (1918)
"... troops.48 About the same time Roggendorf, > the famous Catholic recruiter, arrived in France with twelve hundred pistoleers from Germany. ..."

2. Gaspard de Coligny: Admiral of France by Arthur Whiston Whitehead (1904)
"... that the Guises " are in such feare as themselfs do were privy coatis, and are in the night garded with pistoleers and men in arms. ..."

3. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain by William Hickling Prescott (1855)
"... soon received tidings that the enemy had begun to cross; and, aware of his mistake, he reinforced his pistoleers with a 1s Brantome, (Euvres, torn. ..."

4. Memoirs and Adventures of Sir William Kirkaldy of Grange by James Grant (1849)
"... or pistoleers, the elite of the German cavalry, armed cap-a-pie, and all the Spanish light-horse, swept forward to the charge.1 Disheartened by the ..."

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