corps d'elite
/ˌkɔː deɪˈliːt
/noun
A select group of people: Furse set out to create a Service which would be a corps d’elite...
- The RHA performed so well that it became a corps d'elite within the Regiment.
- Swiss infantrymen rightly consider themselves a corps d'élite.
Origin
French.
- rack-mounted
- rack mounting
- rack of bones
- rack (or wrack) one's brains (or brain)
- rack-out
- rack pillar
- rack pin
- rack pole
- rack punch
- rack rail
- rack railway
- rack rate
- rack rent
- rack-rental
- rack-renter
- rack rod
- rack saw
- rack side
- rack something up
- rack spring
- rack-stick
- rack system
- rack tail
- rack tone
- rackway