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What is a Zouave?

What is a Zouave? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (military) One of an active and hardy body of soldiers in the French service, originally Kabyle, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the Kabyle dress.
  2. (military) Hence, one of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and drill of the zouaves in French service, as was done by a number of volunteer regiments in the army of the United States in the Civil War, 1861-65.
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I have a Garibaldi waist and a Zouave jacket and a balmoral skirt.
She heard the music of a bugle, and wished she were a Zouave safe in barracks.
The society in the Zouave was as cheerful as it was diverse.
The boat and the camel came alongside the Zouave at the same time.
The camel pitched and rolled like a frigate in a rough sea and the chechia responded to the motion as it had on the Zouave.
A Zouave, for whom there was none left, sobbed like a child in his disappointment.

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