In response to an overwhelming lack of demand for another posting on the origins of words and phrases, I proudly bring you the following.
In days of yore, before many things had been thought through as well as they might
Days of Yore
and when hand-held weapons firing projectiles were much less common, it was noticed that the guns of certain mounted soldiers resembled fire-breathing dragons when unleashed on the enemy.
Possibly not days of yore, but still like a fire-breathing dragon
The word we are looking at found its way from French into English, and those soldiers became known to us as…
Dragoons!
Advertisements Share this:
