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Tirailleur   Listen
noun
Tirailleur  n.  (Mil.) Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.






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"Tirailleur" Quotes from Famous Books



... are," she cried, "ma foi! you'll have little face for the fire when the day comes that ye should face it! Pauvre Gregoire, they've left thee a tail like a tirailleur's feather! Plagues light on the thieves that did it! Come here, boy," said she, addressing me, "hold the bridle: what's ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various



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