mousquetaire

plural mousquetaires

1. historicalA musketeer, especially one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries, famed for their daring and their fine clothing.

   [H]is adversary, swelling with rage, cocked his hat fiercely in his face, and fixing his hands in his sides, pronounced with the most imperious tone, “Heark ye, Mr. Round Periwig, you must know that I am a mousquetaire.”

   1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

2. A mousquetaire cuff or mousquetaire glove, or other article of dress imagined to resemble those worn by the French mosquetaires.
3. historicalA woman's cloak trimmed with ribbons, with large buttons, fashionable in the mid-19th century.
4. historicalA broad turnover linen collar worn in the mid-19th century.