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Definition of Pistoleers
1. pistoleer [n] - See also: pistoleer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pistoleers
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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