pistolier

English

Noun

pistolier (plural pistoliers)

1. Alternative spelling of pistoleer.
   • 2001 November 28, T.W.H. Miller, “Historian blasts a hole in myth of notorious Missouri outlaws as good boys driven to crime”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 123, number 331, page E5:

     When the bank is robbed and the shooting starts on a main drag, some people flee, others hide and determined merchants, clerks and farmers take up whatever firearms come to hand and give battle to the mounted pistoliers.