| 单词 | city imperials |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCity Imperials 9. In plural. British troops; spec. (a) (more fully City Imperials) a regiment of volunteers enlisted for the Boer War (1899–1902); (b) the British army or a British regiment in the First World War (1914–18) (chiefly Canadian). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > British Ulsters1649 Scots Guardsa1675 fusilier1680 guards1682 Scots Dragoons1689 Scots Fusiliers1689 Inniskilling1715 Scots Greys1728 blue1737 Black Watch1739 Oxford blues1766 green linnets1793 Grenadiers1800 slashers1802 the Buffs1806 tartan1817 Gay Gordons1823 cheesemongers1824 Green Jacket1824 The Bays1837 RHA1837 dirty half-hundred1841 die-hard1844 lifeguard1849 cherry-picker1865 lancer-regiment1868 cheeses1877 Territorial Regiment1877 the Sweeps1879 dirty shirts1887 Scottish Rifles1888 shiner1891 Yorkshire1898 imperials1899 Irish guards1902 Hampshires1904 BEF1914 Old Contemptibles1915 contemptibles1917 Tank Corps1917 the Tins1918 skins1928 pioneer corps1939 red devils1943 Blues and Royals1968 U.D.R.1969 1899 Morning Post 23 Dec. 2/1 It is intended that some 30 or 40 of the men shall join the City Imperials. 1902 Pearson's Mag. 13 425/1 The Major was in command of a small force of Imperials and Colonials who were besieged by the Boers in the Transvaal. 1917 Manitoba Free Press 28 June 1/5 Among casualties to N.C.O.'s and privates serving in the imperials, the following are reported. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 127 Imperials, the, the name by which British troops were familiarly spoken of by the Canadians and Dominion and Colonial Contingents in the War. 2006 H. P. Klepak in P. E. Rider & H. McNabb Kingdom of Mind iii. 59 In 1956, the Imperials (the Canadian Black Watch's term for the Parent Regiment in Scotland) were reduced to only one battalion. < as lemmas |
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