voltigeur

English

Etymology

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

Noun

voltigeur (plural voltigeurs)

1. A tumbler; a leaper or vaulter.
2. (military, historical) One of a picked company of skirmishers in each regiment of the French infantry during the Napoleonic Wars.
3. (Canada) ranger.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “voltigeur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔl.ti.ʒœʁ/

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Noun

voltigeur m (plural voltigeurs, feminine voltigeuse)

1. voltigeur (all senses)
2. (Canada, baseball) outfielder

Further reading

• “voltigeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.