embusqué

British  

/ ɑ̃byske /

noun

1. a man who avoids military conscription by obtaining a government job

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Etymology

Origin of embusqué

C20: from embusquer to lie in ambush, shirk

Example Sentences

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embusqué

And an embusqué manqué is a slacker who fortuitously has failed to win the fungus wreath of slackerdom.

From The Rough Road by Locke, William John

During the month that had elapsed Robin had been recaptured, other officers had escaped, the whole course of the war was changing, and here was I still embusqué in Constantinople.

From Caught by the Turks by Yeats-Brown, Francis

Now an embusqué is a slacker who lies in the safe ambush of a soft job.

From The Rough Road by Locke, William John

Or was this officer one who had never been to the Front, an embusqué, one of the protected ones, who occupied soft snaps in the rear, safe places from which to draw their pay?

From The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by La Motte, Ellen Newbold

It corresponds with the French "embusqué," one who shelters in a wood, for which we in English have no precise equivalent.

From With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement by Dalton, Hugh Dalton, Baron