mousquetaire

Borrowed from French mousquetaire. Doublet of musketeer.

mousquetaire (plural mousquetaires)

1. (historical) A musketeer, especially one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries, famed for their daring and their fine clothing.
2. A mousquetaire cuff or mousquetaire glove, or other article of dress imagined to resemble those worn by the French mosquetaires.
3. (historical) A woman's cloak trimmed with ribbons, with large buttons, fashionable in the mid-19th century.
4. (historical) A broad turnover linen collar worn in the mid-19th century.

• mousquetaire cuff
• mousquetaire glove

mousquet +‎ -aire

• IPA^(key): /mus.kə.tɛʁ/

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mousquetaire m (plural mousquetaires)

1. musketeer

• “mousquetaire” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).