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What is a light-horseman?

What is a light-horseman? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A soldier who serves in the light cavalry.
  2. (US, obsolete) A West Indian fish, Chaetodipterus faber, with a high dorsal fin and brilliant colours.
  3. (Australia, obsolete) A snapper, Pagrus auratus, whose skull is shaped in the front like a cap worn by light-horsemen.
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No epicure in England could pick a head with more glee and dexterity than they do that of a light-horseman.
Then we determined to run up to Buenos Aires, and with our light-horseman to take one of the pinnaces that rid at the town.
Estradiot, an Albanian dragoon or light-horseman, employed in the French army in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

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