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drum corps
noun
- a band, especially a marching band, of drum players usually under the direction of a drum major.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of drum corps1
An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
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Example Sentences
They marched through the streets of downtown New York to the synchronized beats of the Continental drum corps that followed.
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All of his comrades had gone to see Captain Doughty's Company on parade with the fife-and-drum corps.
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Whereupon the lively young French general ordered his fife and drum corps to strike up "Yankee Doodle."
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To avoid the drum-corps, he had to spend part of his time going away from it.
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The drum-corps behind him was as terrifying as the band in front.
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It required no fife and drum corps, no Fourth of July procession, to set me tingling with patriotism.
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