| 单词 | dutch blue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDutch Blue a. Usually in plural and with capital initial: any of various soldiers distinguished by the wearing of blue; spec. (a) a member of the Royal Horse Guards, or the Oxford Blues (see Oxford blue n. 1); (b) one of the Dutch troops of William III (also Dutch Blue); (c) one of the troops of the French Republic of 1792; (d) a Union soldier in the American Civil War (cf. sense B. 2c).Now chiefly historical. 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 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > American > specific Jersey blue1758 shirtman1775 Yorker1776 buckskin1783 Indian fighter1824 blue belly1827 greyback1854 Zouave1860 Zou-Zou1860 greycoat1861 grey1862 Johnny1862 Johnny Reb1862 blue1870 blue coat1885 dogface1932 1737 Hist. Reg. Chronol. Diary 13/1 His Estate..devolves to his Nephew—Lyttleton, Esq; a Cornet in the Blues. 1812 Examiner 12 Oct. 652/2 The Blues are about to embark for Spain. 1813 Duke of Wellington Let. 31 Jan. in Dispatches (1838) X. 69 I have been appointed Colonel of the Blues. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 294 Another body of household cavalry distinguished by blue coats and cloaks, and still called the Blues, was..quartered in the neighbourhood of the capital. 1870 Harper's New Monthly Mag. 41 245 Lexington..suffered much by the late civil war. Its streets sometimes were patrolled by the Grays, and at other times guarded by the Blues. 1883 E. C. G. Murray People I have Met 233 His wife having elected to make a prolonged visit to Paris, in company with a cornet in the Blues. 1908 R. S. Rait Story Irish Prop. v. 104 Lord Gough is represented on horseback, wearing his uniform as colonel of the Blues. 1986 Backpacker Sept. 33/2 The fort had its heyday during the Civil War. As the blues and the grays battled it out on the continent, Fort Warren served [etc.]. 2000 A. J. Mayer Furies (2002) ix. 324 Not only the revolutionary forces, the Blues, but also their counterrevolutionary opponents, the Whites, freely massacred, raped, and pillaged. < as lemmas |
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