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单词 peace march
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peace marchn.

Brit. /ˈpiːs mɑːtʃ/, U.S. /ˈpis ˌmɑrtʃ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: peace n., march n.5
Etymology: < peace n. + march n.5
1. A march played to signify peace. Obsolete. rare.
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1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Piccolomini i. iv. 25 Hark! Now the soft peace-march [Ger. Friedensmarsch] beats, home, brothers, home!
2. A march conducted during peacetime, or on peaceful terms, rather than as a tactic of war; esp. a march organized in celebration of the conclusion of peace. Now rare.
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1903 Atlanta Constit. 7 Sept. 1/3 (headline) Third Artillery has long march. Will carry guns eight hundred miles... Will be longest peace march on record.
1918 Times 21 Nov. 6/6 The march to the Rhine..will be undertaken generally as a peace march.
1954 B. H. Liddell Hart Strategy ii. xiv. 229 By this series of practically bloodless manœuvres, carried out by ‘peace-marches’ under cover of a smoke-screen of plausible propaganda, he had [etc.].
3. A march in support of peace; a peace demonstration in the form of a march.
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1959 Times 19 Oct. 10/4 If agricultural land in south-east Cyprus were ‘snatched’ for use in British bases, the left wing would rally the youth of all Cyprus and organize peace marches.
1961 A. Wesker Kitchen 58 Did you go on that peace march yesterday?
2003 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 10 Nov. a2 Former Presiding Bishop Edmund Browning led a peace march past the White House on the eve of Gulf War I.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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