| 单词 | free corps |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree corps free corps n. [in later use frequently after German Freikorps (1795 or earlier; 1919 denoting militias active in the Weimar Republic)] now chiefly historical a militia composed of volunteers, often operating independently of the national or state military. ΚΠ 1761 St. James's Chron. 10–12 Nov. The free Corps of M. de L'Abadie, which is in Garrison in our City, has just been augmented with two Squadrons of Dragoons. 1785 Daily Universal Reg. 20 Jan. 2/1 Those persons..had offered their services to raise free corps. 1859 Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) Weekly Commonw. 25 May 1/5 Garibaldi, with a free corps of 11,000 Italian volunteers, most of them soldiers of the war of 1848–'49. 1936 I. F. D. Morrow & L. M. Sieveking tr. A. Rosenberg Hist. German Republic iii. 81 A number of Free Corps..formed in Berlin..were composed almost exclusively of Majority Socialist workmen. 2002 S. Schüler-Springorum in K. Hagemann & S. Schüler-Springorum Home/Front viii. 215 He had led a Free Corps in the Baltic Region after the war. < as lemmas |
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