Meanings
nounpistolier (plural pistoliers)
plural pistoliers
- alternativeAlternative spelling of pistoleer.
When the bank is robbed and the shooting starts on a main drag, some people flee, others hide and determined merchants, clerks and farmers take up whatever firearms come to hand and give battle to the mounted pistoliers.
2001 November 28, T.W.H. Miller, “Historian blasts a hole in myth of notorious Missouri outlaws as good boys driven to crime”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 123, number 331, page E5
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