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‖ voltigeur|vɔltiʒœr|
[F., agent-n. f. voltiger to flutter, hover, vault, etc.]
Formerly in the French army, a member of a special skirmishing company attached to each regiment of infantry.
1807Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 25/1 They were received at the mouth of the musket by the voltigeurs. [Note. Sharp-shooters, or marksmen, mounted on horseback, whose business it is to hover around the enemy,..and annoy him (etc.).] 1827Southey Hist. Penins. War III. 430 The enemy's chasseurs and voltigeurs advanced in considerable bodies under General Lorset.
attrib.1805James Milit. Dict. (ed. 2) s.v., They submitted to a long..training, before they were admitted in the voltigeur companies. 1824De Quincey Pol. Econ. Dial. vi. Misc. (1854) 259 Go on,..and skirmish with him a little more in this voltigeur style.
transf.1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 221 The Van Bunschotens..would have been put to utter rout but for the arrival of a gallant corps of voltigeurs. 1817Keatinge Trav. I. 155 The most active and habituated voltigeurs of the community..contrive to anticipate, and font main basse on whatever can be found. |