单词 | bluecoat officer |
释义 | > as lemmasbluecoat officer a. General attributive, as bluecoat army, bluecoat beadle, bluecoat officer, etc.With quot. 1821, cf. bluestocking adj. ΚΠ 1591 A. Fraunce Countesse of Pembrokes Emanuel sig. Cv A blewcoate knaue. 1599 E. Topsell Times Lament. xxxvi. 394 How deere wil their daintie fare, their silken suites,..and their blew-coate-hirelings cost them. 1614 J. Taylor Nipping of Abuses sig. D3v The very blew-coate beadles get their trash, By whips and rods, and the fine firking lash. a1657 G. Daniel Idyllia in Poems (1878) IV. v. 115 In Blue-Coat Philosophy. a1704 T. Brown Pleasant Epist. in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 4 The Blue-coat Infantry. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV cix. 125 The blue-coat misses of a coterie. 1912 J. Bradshaw Highway Robbery under Arms 6 Yes, savagely they murdered him, The cowardly Blue Coat imps. 1970 D. Brown Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee viii. 176 He had told the Bluecoat officers..that he wanted Fort Laramie to be the Teton Sioux trading post. 2009 R. S. Wheeler North Star xx. 162 This was country where one could run into Peoples from many tribes, or white men, or the bluecoat army, or bears or wolves or coyotes. < as lemmas |
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