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tirailleur (iou)



tirailleur noun. L18.
[French, from tirailler fire in skirmishing order, from tirer draw, shoot (see TIRE verb2) + -eur -OR.]
French History. Any of a body of skirmishers employed in the French Revolutionary War in 1792; a skirmisher, a sharpshooter; a soldier trained for independent action.