the constituted third dragoon. dragoon (n.) 1620s, from Fr. dragon “carbine, musket,” because the guns the soldiers carried “breathed fire” like a dragon. The verb is from 1680s, lit. “to force by the agency of dragoons”.

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   gustafvus: GPOY. 18th Century swaaaaaag.

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