aid-de-camp
Americannoun
plural
aids-de-campExample Sentences
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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
The three generals were all mounted on horse-back, accompanied by Major Mifflin, who is gone in the character of aid-de-camp.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail
Countess Irma's brother, the king's aid-de-camp, again diverted the conversation from such lofty topics back to Walpurga.
From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
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