Brewer's: Light Troops

i.e. light cavalry, meaning Lancers and Hussars, who are neither such large men as the “Heavies,” nor yet so tall. (See Light-Armed Artillery.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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