英语词汇“queen's colour”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Queen's colour n. †(a) Carriage-building (apparently) a dark burgundy colour (obsolete); (b) (in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries) one of the two flags making up, along with the Regimental Colour, the colours carried by a regiment, typically having a design which incorporates the Union Jack or other national flag and the royal cipher (usually with capital initial in the second element); cf. colour n.¹ 20a.

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1837 Times 27 Oct. 1/3 A handsome, four-wheeled cab phaeton, painted Queen's colour.

1842 Times 6 May 6/5 When the troops were attacked at Jugdulluck, he tore the Queen's colour from the staff, and wrapped it round his body, to save it, as he hoped, from falling into the hands of the enemy.

1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross I. vii. 123 The coach, jobbed from London, and newly done up for the occasion, was dark claret, or Queen's colour, with a flaming red hammer-cloth.

1871 Exchange & Mart 30 Aug. 236 A capital phaeton for sale, to carry four, painted Queen's colour, and lined with dark green.

1903 R. P. Berry Hist. Volunteer Infantry 455 The Queen's Colour is the ‘Union’ throughout, bearing in the centre of the red cross of St. George an embroidered Royal Crown.

1963 Times 10 June 8/3 In brilliant sunshine on Saturday the Queen's Colour of the 2nd battalion, Grenadier Guards was trooped in the presence of the Queen on the Horse Guards Parade.

2006 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 4 Sept. 15 Fifty years ago, as a young subaltern, I carried the Queen's Colour of the 1st Somersets into Wells Cathedral on our return from Malaya.

单词	queen's colour
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