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
My son, who had in the preceding war been an officer in the army raised against Canada, was my aid-de-camp, and of great use to me.
From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Franklin, Benjamin
Countess Wildenort's brother is aid-de-camp to his majesty, and, in half an hour from now, will present his report and get the countersign.
From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
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