dragoon
noun/drəˈɡuːn/
/drəˈɡuːn/
- a soldier in the past who rode a horse and carried a gunTopics War and conflictc2Word Originearly 17th cent. (denoting ‘a kind of carbine ’or‘ musket, thought of as breathing fire’): from French dragon ‘dragon’.
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