单词 | colour chest |
释义 | > as lemmascolour chest colour chest n. Navy (now historical) a locker in which a ship's colours are stored when not in use. ΚΠ 1795 M. Greetham Minutes Court Martial A. J. P. Molloy 174 As you had an Opportunity from your Situation standing on the Colour Chest, of seeing me, from the beginning of the Action to the end of it, did it appear to you that I was doing my Duty as an Officer and a Man? 1838 J. Barrow Life Richard Earl Howe viii. 273 I ordered the wreck to be cleared away from the colour chest, and spread a Union Jack at the spritsail-yard and a St. George's ensign at the stump of the foremast. 1977 P. O'Brian Mauritius Command iii. 71 Mr Fellowes, I did not suppose we have a broad pendant in the colour-chest? < as lemmas |
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