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Definition of Fusileer
1. n. Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural:
Definition of Fusileer
1. fusilier [n -S] - See also: fusilier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fusileer
Literary usage of Fusileer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1868)
"*ot a time the whole battalion of the Scots fusileer Guards was m confusion near
the bank of the river five hundred men, these remains of what had been the ..."
2. The Cambrian Quarterly Magazine and Celtic Repertory (1831)
"THE WELSH fusileer, A TALE OF THE PENINSULAR WAR. To You observe that there exists
no period so fertile in tales of interest as the Peninsular war. ..."
3. Cambridge Essays by University of Cambridge (1858)
"But, supposing that the increased notoriety of the ordinary staff of the fusileer
did tend, in some exceptional case, to blunt the edge of the sword of ..."
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