musketeer

A type of soldier equipped with a musket. Musketeers were an important part of early modern warfare, particularly in Europe.

In popular culture, character known as "musketeers" are stylized after the French musketeers, who were typically armed with a rapier sword. This is largely due to the 1844 French novel The Three Musketeers, which codified them into an early-modern equivalent of a knight.