cuirassier
a cavalry soldier wearing a cuirass.
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How to use cuirassier in a sentence
In 1814 followed the “Wounded cuirassier,” staggering across the field of battle and dragging his horse behind him.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) | Richard MutherWhen the Count received me he was clothed in the undress uniform of the cuirassier regiment, of which he was the colonel.
The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete | General Philip Henry SheridanShe stopped a cuirassier riding a lame horse, his own leg hastily bandaged with a piece of coloured calico.
The Isle of Unrest | Henry Seton MerrimanShe haunted, therefore, the heights of Bazeilles, seeking among the dead one who wore the cuirassier uniform.
The Isle of Unrest | Henry Seton MerrimanMany a proud Uhlan and cuirassier has to-day ridden to his death amid the dense mobs, mad with the lust of blood.
The Invasion | William Le Queux
British Dictionary definitions for cuirassier
/ (ˌkwɪərəˈsɪə) /
a mounted soldier, esp of the 16th century, who wore a cuirass
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