Mountie

Mountie
Mountie (n.) 1914, member of the Royal Canadian (originally North-west) MOUNTED (Cf. Mounted) Police, formed 1873 to keep order in the former Hudson's Bay Company lands. Also see -IE (Cf. -ie).

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