Since when could you hold a musket on your belt?
They typically had barrels over three feet long, with a total weapon length over four feet.
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pseudo@jlai.lu 3 days ago
The french word “mousquet” means first a place of the belt where you hold stuff. Hence the name of the sword that you hold there, and the military unit that would were them even within the capital city as they were charge to protect the king. Later, it meant the firearm you could hold at the same place.
nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You’d hang it next to the onion which was the style at the time.
iii@mander.xyz 1 day ago
There’s no room next to the onion. That’s where I keep my other onion.
ScrollerBall@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You got a link to your source on that?
Merriam-webster says mousquet came from the Old Italian moschetto meaning a small artillery piece. It’s also a term for a male sparrow hawk. Which there was a traditio of naming weapons after animals.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/musket
The Wikipedia page for musketeer says this:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musketeer
So the term Musketeer comes from the fact that they are armed with muskets. I cant find anything about a mousquet being a place on the belt to hold stuff.