Chasseur

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of certain light cavalry or infantry troops trained for rapid maneuvers.
  • n. A hunter.
  • n. A uniformed footman.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A soldier equipped for rapid movement; also, any of several light infantry regiments, especially in France.
  • n. A servant or attendant.
  • n. A hotel messenger, especially in France.
  • n. A style of cooking in which meat is cooked with a sauce containing mushrooms, shallots and white wine
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements.
  • n. An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A huntsman.
  • n. A soldier.
  • n. A domestic in the households of persons of rank in Europe, who wears a huntsman's or a semi-military livery, and performs the duties of a footman.
  • Word Usage
    "The chasseur was a tall, meagre, swarthy Spaniard or mulatto, lightly clad in cotton shirt and drawers, with broad straw-hat and moccasins of raw hide; his belt sustaining his long, straight, flat sword or _machete_, like an iron bar sharpened at one end; and he wore by the same belt three cotton leashes for his three dogs, sometimes held also by chains."
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