单词 | call to quarters |
释义 | > as lemmascall to quarters P8. call to quarters: a call, esp. as sounded by a bugle, summoning soldiers to their barracks. ΚΠ 1823 J. F. Cooper Pilot I. xviii. 245 The drum of the Englishman was now, for the first time, heard, rattling across the waters, and echoing the call to quarters, that had already proceeded from the Ariel. 1944 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 31 30 The call to quarters one hour after sundown was the signal for study until tattoo, which gave warning to prepare for sleep. 2011 G. Bethlenfalvay In Search of Amer. i. 27 The plaintive chords of a distant bugle call wafting through mild waves of dusking evening air. They are the call to quarters of the Seventh Infantry Battalion. < as lemmas |
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