Hussar

Hussar, a light-cavalry trooper, wearing in full dress a tunic and Busby (q.v.), and armed with sabre and carbine. The 10th and 18th Light Dragoons were changed in 1806-7 to Hussars, the earliest in the British army (see CAVALRY). The name is not a Hungarian huss-dr, indicating that they were raised one out of every twenty inhabitants; but pure Slavonic for 'Gooseherd,' a name given to bodies of wild, raiding horsemen, organised and taken into pay by Matthias Corvinus.