musketeer 火槍手（台灣熟悉的《三劍客》英文是 musketeers，書名卻常譯成「劍客」）｜字脈

1火槍手（台灣熟悉的《三劍客》英文是 musketeers，書名卻常譯成「劍客」）
A musketeer was a soldier in the past whose main gun was a musket. The English word comes from French mousquetaire in the late 1500s; on the surface it is also musket + -eer (a person linked to something). French musketeers became famous, and later stories turned them into heroes. Though actually, in The Three Musketeers they fight a great deal with swords; the name still means “musket soldier,” not “sword soldier.” Today the word is mostly for history, costume, or that story — it is not a job in a modern army. (A later joke blend with the name Musk is a different, playful use; it is not this sense.)

組成From Middle French mousquetaire. By the look of the English word: musket + -eer. Doublet of mousquetaire.

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Musketeernoun

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informalA fan, supporter or partisan of Elon Musk.
- This was the rock that Musk and his Musketeers planned to build their company on.
- Mr Vance comes across as a “Musketeer”, someone who believes in Mr Musk’s power to reshape the world.

musketeernoun/ˌmʌs.kəˈtɪə(ɹ)/

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historicalgovernmentmilitarypoliticsA foot soldier armed with a musket.
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historicalgovernmentmilitarypoliticsIn 17th- and 18th-century France, a member of the royal household bodyguard.
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A comrade or fellow.
- Reuniting the cast of Trainspotting for a new adventure 21 years on could have gone badly. The BBC’s misjudged This Life + 10, bringing the cast of the iconic 90s TV drama back together, is a case in point. But Boyle and his four musketeers give it just the right frantic, jaded energy and manic anxiety.

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