- a variation of aide-de-camp.
aid-de-camp
Americannoun
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aids-de-camp
plural
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The nightmare was the same nearly everywhere: the investigators showed up in Paris last fall in the company of former Senate Page Boy Joseph Stewart, 22, who came along as aid-de-camp.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cheerily a Japanese aid-de-camp spoke of "taking over Chinchow by Christmas."
From Time Magazine Archive
Cheerily a Japanese aid-de-camp spoke of 'taking over Chinchow by Christmas.'
From Time Magazine Archive
Not being able to escape, he was compelled to serve as aid-de-camp to Jacques Dessalines.
From To Cuba and Back by Richard Henry Dana
The aid-de-camp had given vent to a joke on the subject, at which they laughed uproariously.
From On the Heights A Novel by Berthold Auerbach
Quiet Miss Myra was put out of court by impetuous Mrs. Simcoe and her female aids-de-camp.
From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray
The sheep were under Ernest's care, and I brought up the rear of this patriarchal band, while the two dogs kept constantly running backward and forward in the character of aids-de-camp.
From The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Jean Rudolph Wyss
When he beheld the mass of men arrive, and before seeing the aids-de-camp, he turned to me with an expression of consternation, 'What would they have me to do with these?
From Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Michael Russell
He has mounted a beautiful white horse; his aids-de-camp are by his side, followed by his generals.
From Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire by Mary Robinson
He had as his aids-de-camp Messrs. Phillips, Chilton, and Radcliff, of the District Bar, each knowing well his Honor the Judge and the rest of the court.
From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore
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