- 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
It was therefore necessary to find as his aid-de-camp one who could quickly interpret the orders of his commanding officer.
From St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various
One of the officers the sergeant knew instantly—an aid-de-camp of the commanding general.
From Trumpeter Fred A Story of the Plains by Charles King
Surrounded by kneeling aids-de-camp, he alone stood up, in the rich uniform of a general of division, seeming the perfection of military elegance and dignity.
From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Robert A. Wilson
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
My staff, Colonel Snelling, Colonel Gardner, Major Jones, and my aids-de-camp, Major Austin and Lieutenant Armstrong, were, as usual, zealous, intelligent, and active; they performed every duty required of them to my entire satisfaction.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart
About twelve o'clock the President, in full uniform, attended by his aids-de-camp, paid me a visit, and sat about half an hour, very amiable as usual.
From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Robert A. Wilson
I had the pleasure of seeing both the generals and their aids-de-camp soon after their arrival, and of being personally made known to them.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams
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