| 单词 | dirty shirts |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdirty shirts d. dirty half-hundred: applied to the 50th foot (1st Battalion Royal West Kent), from the fact that, during the Peninsular war, the men wiped their faces with their black facings. dirty shirts: the 101st foot (1st Battalion Munster Fusiliers), from the fact that they fought in their shirt-sleeves at Delhi in 1857. (Farmer.) 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 1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley in Dublin Univ. Mag. July 50/2 A kind of neutral tint between green and yellow, like nothing I know of except the facings of the ‘dirty half-hundred’. 1887 Daily News 11 July in Farmer As the old Bengal European Regiment..they had won their honourable sobriquet of the dirty shirts. 1892 Daily News 20 July 3/1 One who fought with the old ‘Dirty Shirts’ in the Sutlej campaign. < as lemmas |
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