| 单词 | fife and drum |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfife and drum c. fife and drum: taken as typical instruments of martial music; often attributive in literal sense, and figurative = martial, militant. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > [noun] > martial instruments fife and drum1672 society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [adjective] militarist1896 militaristic1898 fife and drum1900 Prussianist1920 1672 J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 6) Pref. sig. A6 When he hears the sound of the Trumpet, the Fife and Drum. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 14 Feb. 3/2 The ‘Captains Courageous’ of the House were by no means unanimous in his favour. The Under-Secretary for War had not many fife-and-drum supporters in their ranks. 1923 B. Whitlock J. Hardin & Son i. v. 69 In the line there was a fife and drum corps. 1958 Times 29 Dec. 9/4 As a curate at St. Giles-in-the-Fields he started a fife-and-drum band for boys. < as lemmas |
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