musketeer

noun

Etymology: From Middle French mousquetaire in the late 16th century. By surface analysis, musket + -eer. Doublet of mousquetaire.

1. A foot soldier armed with a musket.
2. In 17th- and 18th-century France, a member of the royal household bodyguard.
3. A comrade or fellow.

   “Reuniting the cast of Trainspotting for a new adventure 21 years on could have gone badly. The BBC’s misjudged This Life + 10, bringing the cast of the iconic 90s TV drama back together, is a case in point. But Boyle and his four musketeers give it just the right frantic, jaded energy and manic anxiety.”