单词 | irish dragoons |
释义 | > as lemmasIrish Dragoons b. Designating a regiment of the British Army chiefly composed of soldiers of Irish origin. Also: designating a similar regiment in a Commonwealth army. Chiefly in the names of such regiments, as Irish Dragoons, Irish Hussars, etc. Cf. Irish guard n. 3. Also: designating a member of such a regiment. ΚΠ 1645 Whole Triall of Connor Lord Macguire 8 An Irish Company of Foot of Colonell Willowbies Regiment, all Protestants, and servitours. 1689 E. Bohun Hist. Desertion 85 A Party of the Prince's men..attacked the Irish Dragoons. 1755 in B. Martin Misc. Corr. (1759) I. Oct. 173/2 Civil and Military Preferments... Isaac Hamilton, Gent. to be a Lieutenant in the Royal Irish Regiment of Foot. 1783 Brit. Mag. & Rev. Nov. 403/2 Royal Irish Regiment of Artillery. John Stratton, to be colonel-commandant. 1872 All Year Round 23 Mar. 396/2 The cavalry included..the Queen's Own Irish Lancers. 1894 Ld. Wolseley Life Marlborough II. 177 Some sixty or seventy Irish Dragoons ‘drew out’..and took up a threatening position. 1902 Chatterbox 352 (caption) ‘And where may you be going, Mr. Boer?’ asked an Irish Fusilier. 1941 Faugh-a-Ballagh 34 45/1 Of our Allied Regiment, the Irish Fusiliers of Canada, we have heard nothing concrete since last May. 1998 Independent (Nexis) 15 Sept. (Features section) 8 I'd chosen the Irish Hussars, which actually were a tank regiment; being Irish, they also didn't do tours of duty in Northern Ireland. < as lemmas |
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