musketeer

[muhs-ki-teer] Origin

mus·ket·eer

[muhs-ki-teer]
noun
a soldier armed with a musket.

Origin:
1580–90; musket + -eer; compare French mousquetaire, equivalent to mousquet musket + -aire -ary
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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musketeer (ˌmʌskɪˈtɪə)
 
n
(formerly) a soldier armed with a musket

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musketeer
"soldier armed with a musket," 1580s, from Fr. mousquetaire, from mousquette (see musket).
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