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Custer

[ kuhs-ter ]

noun

  1. George Arm·strong [ahrm, -strawng, -strong], 1839–76, U.S. general and Indian fighter.


Custer

/ ˈkʌstə /

noun

  1. CusterGeorge Armstrong18391876MUSMILITARY: cavalry general George Armstrong. 1839–76, US cavalry general: Civil War hero, killed fighting the Sioux Indians at Little Bighorn, Montana
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

However, her attempts to save the day are thwarted when Ashtray stabs Custer in the neck because it’s the only thing he apparently knows how to do.

According to Cody, he thrust the scalp in the air and shouted, “The first scalp for Custer!”

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In Buffalo Bill’s stage show The Red Right Hand or The First Scalp for Custer, the scalping of Yellow Hand was an act of justice.

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None of the warriors that the men fought had been at the battle of Little Big Horn, known as Custer’s Last Stand, or had likely ever encountered the revered General George Armstrong Custer.

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Reportedly, George Custer wore a Stetson into Little Big Horn.

And this is how he explains that the mythology surrounding General Custer is largely false.

In Custer County, Idaho, there was a sign by the road that said.

For many years, McMurtry saw no need for another book on Custer.

Larry McMurtry has been a student of the countless depictions of Custer for the past 40 years.

Resuming its place in the column, I received orders to report with the regiment to General Custer, who was at its head.

General Custer was here, there, and everywhere, urging the men forward with cheers and oaths.

I rode forward between the lines with Custer and Pennington, and met several old friends among the rebels, who came out to see us.

The incidents which I recalled were those of war, but Custer's friends here gave me the incidents of peace.

My emotions upon entering this town, long the dearest place in all the world to Custer, can better be imagined than described.

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