| 单词 | mournful mary |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMournful Mary Mournful Mary n. Military slang (now historical) the siren used at Dunkirk during the First World War (1914–18); (also) any siren. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > signal of air attack Mournful Mary1917 maroon1918 Mournful Maria1925 Moaning Minnie1939 alert1940 warning1940 1917 A. A. C. (Royal Navy Anti-aircraft Corps) Aug. 93/2 There is a dear old thing in the nearest town which is locally known as ‘Mournful Mary’. 1918 Duluth (Minnesota) News-Tribune 16 Mar. 2/2 ‘Mournful Mary’ is the soldiers' nickname for the municipal siren that warns the population of Calais that enemy aircraft are approaching. 1918 D. S. Ingalls Jrnl. 4 May in Hero of Angry Sky (2013) 165 Mournful Mary sounded at 10:30 just as I finished my bath, and we heard the motors. 1920 G. S. Maxwell Motor Launch Patrol ix. 151 Above all the voice of the siren—the famous Mournful Mary—kept up a moaning obbligato. 1931 E. W. Springs Rise & Fall of Carol Banks 4 Mournful Mary, the siren, had just advised the two citizens of Dunkirk. 2007 M. Wortman Millionaires' Unit xxii. 223 Lying there his first night back he listened to ‘Mournful Mary’, the gut-piercing, two-note baritone wail that announced each cannon flash of the long-range guns behind German lines. < as lemmas |
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