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Webster 1913 Edition

Voltigeur

‖

Volˊti-geur

,

Noun.

[F., fr.

voltiger

to vault, It.

volteggiare

. See

a tread.]

1.

A tumbler; a leaper or vaulter.

2.

(Mil.)

One of a picked company of irregular riflemen in each regiment of the French infantry.