单词 | requeté |
释义 | requetén. A member of a Carlist militia that took the Nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–9; (hence) this militia itself. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > militiaman > specific miquelet1670 minuteman1774 landwehr man1866 khassadar1901 somatenist1928 requeté1936 miliciano1938 militiaman1939 Basij1982 Basiji1982 1936 Times 26 Aug. 12/4 The troops engaged on the insurgent side have consisted of requetes, Navarrese volunteers almost to a man. 1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Aug. 558/3 The first, longer and better of the two stories..describes how a Carlist requeté in North Spain deserted his side to secure the reprieve of his father. 1944 W. Lewis Let. 5 Jan. (1963) 374 I was glad to learn from Augustus that he had exchanged his requeté uniform for that of the Home Guard. 1957 P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble ii. 21 The Requeté movement drew its main strength from the Basque provinces, especially from Navarre. 1988 M. Blinkhorn Democracy & Civil War in Spain (BNC) 28 The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early day of the Republic. 2003 M. Vincent in K. Passmore Women, Gender, & Fascism in Europe xii. 206 The party's militia, the Requeté, effectively substituted for any formal male youth movement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1936 |
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