Blue Orchid
noun Australian
A member of the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War: I was so impressed with the Blue Orchids that I put my age up and joined...
- A special exhibition—'Blue Orchids: The RAAF Uniform 1921–2001'—opens on 28 August and is open during museum hours.
- At age 19, he was accepted into the Royal Australian Air Force as a Blue Orchid.
- He had to pass close to the army cadets and was several times teased by people calling him a Blue Orchid.
Origin
1940s: from the colour of the uniform and with reference to its supposed smartness.
- trustworthily
- trustworthiness
- trustworthy
- trusty
- truth
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Truth Commission
- truth condition
- truth drug
- truther
- truth frequency
- truthful
- truthfully
- truthfulness
- truth function
- truth-functional
- truth-functionality
- truth-functionally
- truthify
- truthiness
- truthing
- truth in sentencing
- truthless
- truthlike
- truthlikeness