color sergeant

American  

noun

1. a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.

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Etymology

Origin of color sergeant

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

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color sergeant

And they appointed Mrs. Samuel Bloomer, widow of the Company's color sergeant to be custodian of their battle flag.

From Time Magazine Archive

He remembered suddenly the day Jackson had come upon some of his troops letting a valiant Yankee color sergeant withdraw after a great fight.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

A sergeant and one man stopped one rush; a color sergeant and private, well equipped with sandbags, each holding a score of bombs, performed miracles of resistance.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

The color sergeant of the 72d Pa., grasping the stump of the severed lance in both his hands, waved the flag above his head and rushed towards the wall.

From The Battle of Gettysburg by Haskell, Frank Aretas

The color sergeant of the Tenth Cavalry, Adam Houston, bore to the front not only his own flags, but those of the Third Cavalry when the latter's color sergeant was shot down.

From Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various