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Mount⋅y

  [moun-tee]
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–noun, plural Mount⋅ies.
Mountie.

Moun⋅tie

  [moun-tee]
–noun Informal.
a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Also, Mounty.

Origin:
1885–90; mount(ed) + -ie
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Mount·ie also Mount·y   (moun'tē)   
n.   pl. Mount·ies Informal
A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Mount·y   (moun'tē)   
n.  Variant of Mountie.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

Mountie 
1914, member of the Royal Canadian (originally North West) Mounted Police, formed 1873 to keep order in the former Hudson's Bay Company lands.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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