单词 | milicien |
释义 | milicienn. French History. A member of a troop of citizens raised to reinforce the regular army. In later use: spec. a member of the Milice, the force employed by the Vichy government of 1940–4 to repress internal dissent. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > member of national or municipal guard halberdier1517 partisan1649 stationary1698 milicien1760 gendarme1796 municipal1837 national1843 carabiniere1847 Pasdaran1979 Pasdar1980 1760 J. Amherst Jrnl. 17 Aug. (1931) 232 I..took the Prisoners on Shore, being 27 Sailors, 65 Miliciens, & with the Officers made up 100 men. 1945 Tomorrow (N.Y.) Feb. 11/1 These fellow-soldiers..would..comb a building for Germans or the dreaded Miliciens. 1961 P. de Vomécourt Who lived to see Day ix. 107 Almost to a man the miliciens were thugs on the make... Many of them were convicted criminals. 1966 M. R. D. Foot SOE in France v. 120 Miliciens were Frenchmen who lived and worked in their home towns and villages. 1967 Listener 16 Nov. 640/3 He is liquidated on suspicion of being one of the miliciens. 1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 3 Oct. 36/4 Picked up by the police, he proved a cooperative prisoner, answering their questions about fellow-miliciens and Milice sympathizers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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