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单词 piou-piou
释义 piou-piou|pjupju|
[Fr.]
A popular name for a French private soldier.
1854B. St. John Purple Tints of Paris II. xi. 224 Formerly, a piou-piou—as the common soldier was somewhat contemptuously called—was treated..with a sort of paternal solicitude.1867‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags I. xiii. 300 The speaker looked down on the piou-piou with superb contempt.1894[see nounou].1900R. Whiteing Life of Paris 207 Polin..figures as the common soldier, the pioupiou, with his simple virtues of good-humour and fidelity to the flag.1930[see nounou].
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