英语词汇“perdu sentinel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†a. Designating a sentinel's position which is so dangerous that death is almost inevitable; posted in such a position. Only in sentinel perdu (also occasionally perdu sentinel). Cf. forlorn sentinel at sentinel n. 1a. Obsolete.In quot. 1591 interpreted as an adjective from the context, although the punctuation appears to indicate a noun.

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1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre i. 1 In Trenches, where perchance hee shall stand a number of houers in the water and myre vp to the knees: and besides vp on the Bulwarkes, breaches, in espials, in Sentinels, perdues, and such like.

a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 53 Sir Edward Cecill..used often during this Siege to go in person in the night time to try whether he could catch any Sentinells perdues.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xix. 149/2 A Perdue sentinell is..layd down in the open field, where he lyeth on his belly with his eare to the ground to heare what he can from the enemy.

单词	perdu sentinel
释义	> as lemmas perdu sentinel †a. Designating a sentinel's position which is so dangerous that death is almost inevitable; posted in such a position. Only in sentinel perdu (also occasionally perdu sentinel). Cf. forlorn sentinel at sentinel n. 1a. Obsolete.In quot. 1591 interpreted as an adjective from the context, although the punctuation appears to indicate a noun. ΚΠ 1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre i. 1 In Trenches, where perchance hee shall stand a number of houers in the water and myre vp to the knees: and besides vp on the Bulwarkes, breaches, in espials, in Sentinels, perdues, and such like. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 53 Sir Edward Cecill..used often during this Siege to go in person in the night time to try whether he could catch any Sentinells perdues. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xix. 149/2 A Perdue sentinell is..layd down in the open field, where he lyeth on his belly with his eare to the ground to heare what he can from the enemy. extracted from perduadj.n. < as lemmas
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