aid-de-camp
Americannoun
plural
aids-de-campExample Sentences
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Cheerily a Japanese aid-de-camp spoke of "taking over Chinchow by Christmas."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
“Nathalie was there, perhaps,” said the aid-de-camp, significantly.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
During the war, it was the custom for the general to despatch an aid-de-camp to Mount Vernon, at the close of each campaign, to escort his wife to head-quarters.
From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
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