Usually means: French light infantry, distinctive uniforms.
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  1. Zouave, Zouave: Merriam-Webster
  2. Zouave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Zouave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Zouave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Zouave, zouave: Wordnik
  6. Zouave: Wiktionary
  7. Zouave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Zouave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Zouave: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Zouave: Dictionary.com
  11. zouave: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. The Zouave, Zouave (Pont de l'Alma), Zouave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Zouave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. zouave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Zouave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. zouave: FreeDictionary.org
  17. Zouave: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (Zouave)

noun:  (military, historical) One of a body of soldiers in the French service, originally Kabyle, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the Kabyle dress.
noun:  (military, historical, by extension) 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).
noun:  (military, historical) a French soldier in the Union army of the Unites States civil war, or a Union soldier in a French soldier's uniform.

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