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Definition of Crossbowmen
1. crossbowman [n] - See also: crossbowman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crossbowmen
Literary usage of Crossbowmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... Notre- Dame-des-Victoires or du Sablón, Flemish Gothic, founded in 1304 by
the Guild of crossbowmen; the barocco church of the Béguines (1657-76). ..."
2. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages by Ferdinand Gregorovius, Annie Hamilton, Irving Stone (1898)
"... BOLOGNA COMES UNDER THE DOMINION OF THE CHURCH—BERNABO VISCONTI LAYS CLAIM TO
THIS CITY—HUGO OF CYPRUS, SENATOR, 1361—CORPORATIONS OF THE crossbowmen ..."
3. The Beginnings of Modern Europe (1250-1450) by Ephraim Emerton (1917)
"... 115; rival of Venice, 386-392 Genoa, Treaty of, 394, 407 Genoese crossbowmen,
at Courtrai, 204 ; at Crecy, 266 George of Trebizond, Renaissance scholar, ..."