musqueteer

English

Etymology

From French mousquetaire. Surface etymology is musquet +‎ -eer

Noun

musqueteer (plural musqueteers)

Obsolete form of musketeer.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:
  
  When the good lieutenant applied himself to the door, he applied himself likewise to the bell; and the drawer immediately attending, he dispatched him for a file of musqueteers and a surgeon.

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