| 单词 | gentleman in red |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgentleman in red P7. gentleman in red: a soldier. Now archaic and rare. ΚΠ 1699 T. Brown Coll. Misc. Poems, Lett. 171 As for her pitching upon a soldier to be her gallant,..the Gentlemen in red..have for several ages been in possession of the Sex. 1774 C. Lee Let. 16 Dec. in E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 513 We gentlemen in red never chose to remember that..the provincials never led the flight. 1825 Morning Post 18 May Those who thought..that neither our Gentlemen in black, nor our Gentlemen in red, ought to be better paid or increased in numbers. 1933 R. Kipling in Strand Feb. 126 I..was a Gentleman in Red When all the Quorn wore woad, Sir. < as lemmas |
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