English Explanatory Dictionary

voltigeur

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One of a picked company of skirmishers in each regiment of the French infantry during the Napoleonic Wars.
  2. A ranger.

Word forms

voltigeur voltigeurs

Etymology

Borrowed from French voltigeur, from voltiger (“to vault”), Italian volteggiare. See volt (“a tread”).

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