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单词 back-ward
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back-wardn.1

Forms: see back- comb. form and ward n.2
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; probably modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: back- comb. form, ward n.2
Etymology: < back- comb. form + ward n.2 (compare sense 13 at that entry), probably after Anglo-Norman reregard, reregarde rearguard n.1 Compare rearguard n.1, rearward n.1
Obsolete.
Rear-guard, rear-ward.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > part of army by position > [noun] > rear
back-wardc1275
rearwarda1325
reredosc1400
reward1440
back-guardc1470
rearguard1481
arrière-guard1489
retroguard1574
arrear-ward1579
forlorn hope1579
train1598
back1600
rear1604
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11884 Þat wes þa bac-warde [c1300 Otho bac-ward].
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Donner sur la queuë d'vne armée, to fall vpon the backe ward of an armie.
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