单词 | gold escort |
释义 | > as lemmasgold escort gold escort n. Australian, New Zealand, & Canadian (now historical) an armed guard protecting gold in transit from a gold mine.Earliest in attributive use. ΚΠ 1851 Bell's Life in Sydney 30 Aug. The Bathurst mail and gold escort carriage..did not reach town till yesterday afternoon. 1949 A. H. Reed Story Canterbury 265 A bank officer having been stuck up and robbed of some gold, the Provincial Council resolved to institute an armed gold escort. 1986 Pacific Northwest Q. 77 55/1 British Columbia had a government-funded system of..gold escorts, who provided security for shipments of precious metal. 2013 P. Macinnis Big Bk. Austral. Hist. 84 The colonial governments created gold escorts—groups of armed men in blue uniforms, usually retired soldiers, who accompanied sturdy carts filled with gold. < as lemmas |
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