drum corps

noun

1. a band, especially a marching band, of drum players usually under the direction of a drum major.

Word History and Origins

Origin of drum corps¹

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

Example Sentences

They marched through the streets of downtown New York to the synchronized beats of the Continental drum corps that followed.

From The Daily Beast

All of his comrades had gone to see Captain Doughty's Company on parade with the fife-and-drum corps.

From Project Gutenberg

Whereupon the lively young French general ordered his fife and drum corps to strike up "Yankee Doodle."

From Project Gutenberg

To avoid the drum-corps, he had to spend part of his time going away from it.

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The drum-corps behind him was as terrifying as the band in front.

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It required no fife and drum corps, no Fourth of July procession, to set me tingling with patriotism.

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