noun

• A cavalryman armed with a lance as a member of various European armies.

  ‘The lancers wore the czapka of the Polish uhlans, the hussars wore the dolmans of Hungarian horsemen.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Both uhlan and czapska derive from Turkish and clearly associate the Polish lancers with origins in Turkey.’
  • ‘The train moved back to Radziwillow, where it was next captured by the uhlans of the 2nd squadron on May 24, 1920.’
  • ‘Soon uhlans as well as the other mounted troops had to abandon their horses and armed with rifles, get into the trenches.’
  • ‘In Army of Duchy of Warsaw there existed ten uhlans regiments.’