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Definition of Sabreurs
1. sabreur [n] - See also: sabreur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sabreurs
Literary usage of Sabreurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Book of the Riviera by Sabine Baring-Gould (1905)
"In 1652 S. Tropez was a prey to civil war between the sabreurs and the ...
The sabreurs got possession of the castle, but the Due de ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... clear the way for bearded old Mussulman sabreurs, and compelling a lofty
African desert to yield water by an American device not yet a twelvemonth old. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1845)
"... how those infernal mousquetaires, those sabreurs as he ironically called them,
had forgotten themselves over their bottle at a tavern in the Rue Feron, ..."
4. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"... the fast- fading remnants of an epoch that was at any rate a grand one; the
sabreurs of [Conduct*! by But here Madame Chose thrust her bead into the ..."
5. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1869)
"Science suppresses the old panoply of war, and makes fools of sabreurs. One other
economical topic I will notice in the way of illustration. ..."
6. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1884)
"Of Washington's thirteen generals, elected by the Continental Congress, some were
mere sabreurs, many incompetent, and several effete from sickness or age: ..."
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