Etymology

tirailleur

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Today it means: An infantry soldier. Full definition →

French tirailler
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromtirailler“to skirmish”
  2. English todaytirailleur

Borrowed from French tirailler (“to skirmish”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.