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[April Frazier <raving_dove AT yahoo.com>]

mus·ket·eer        (mŭs'kĭ-tîr')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  

   1. A soldier armed with a musket.
   2. A member of the French royal household bodyguard in the 17th and 18th 
centuries.



[French mousquetaire, from mousquet, musket; see musket.]

Found this at dictionary.com.

April-
loving looking for factoids





--- On Sun, 9/21/08, Bunjov AT aol.com <Bunjov AT aol.com> wrote:

> From: Bunjov AT aol.com <Bunjov AT aol.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] A Silly Historical Question...
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008, 8:09 AM
> First, I don't want to hear any snickers from out there
> (no, not the candy  
> bar).
>  
> I have been sitting here since 2:30 or so, catching up on
> posts, etc. - and  
> channel surfing to find news.
>  
> Here's the goofy part - my left thumb got stuck on one
> of the cartoon  
> channels, for just long enough to make me wonder why The
> Three Musketeers were  
> called musketeers? 
>  
> I read the stuff as a child, of course, but it never
> occurred to me until  
> now - why did Dumas call them musketeers when all they had
> was  swords???
>  
> What's the time frame? Were 'muskets' even
> invented yet when the story was  
> set?
>  
> Sandy
> Mid-Mojave
> Scratching her head
>  
>  
> 
> 
> 
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