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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dragoon /drəˈguːn/

▶noun a member of any of several British cavalry regiments.

■ historical a mounted infantryman armed with a carbine.

▶verb coerce into doing something.

– origin C17 (denoting a kind of carbine or musket, thought of as breathing fire): from Fr. dragon ‘dragon’.

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