The three musketeers never use muskets

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• pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • ScrollerBall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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:

    The Musketeers of the Guard were a junior unit, initially of roughly company strength, of the military branch of the Royal Household. They were created in 1622 when Louis XIII furnished a company of light cavalry (the “carabiniers”, created by Louis’ father Henry IV) with muskets.

    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.

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  • nBodyProblem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’d hang it next to the onion which was the style at the time.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s one of those things where we shortened a word and then it stopped making logical sense.

  “The three musketeers” werent just musketeers who carried muskets.

  They were “the king’s musketeers”. They were elite special forces as well as the personal bodyguard for the King. The best of the best. The “musketeer” part was the common bit, it just sounds fancy centuries later.

  But the book might as well be called “The Kingsguard”

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s also 4 of them.

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  • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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• cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Privateers didnt use their privates

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  • IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes they did but only in private

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But they privatized the loot

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    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      *booty

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And don’t you fucking forget D’Artagnan!

  There’s 4 of those fuckers regardless of what the elite Paris guard think!

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oui, d’accord, but he’s not officially a Musketeer until he’s proved himself with gallantry, daring, and disregard for the evil Richelieu and his minions.

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• son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well yeah, it’s hard to fit a musket in to a candy bar.

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