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

And the Marquis now is nicely embusqué in the automobile service.

From One Man's Initiation—1917 by Dos Passos, John

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

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

Do you take me for an embusqué manqué?”

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