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King's Regulations

British

plural noun

(in Britain and the Commonwealth when the sovereign is male) the code of conduct for members of the armed forces that deals with discipline, aspects of military law, etc

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King's Regulations

The peacetime R.A.F. would not have Bader without legs, but when war began, not even the King's Regulations could hold him back.

From Time Magazine Archive

By King's Regulations an officer under arrest may wear neither sword nor spurs.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the subject of the King's Regulations was even more distasteful to the cuddy than Pine's interminable anecdotes, and Mrs. Vickers hastened to change the subject.

From For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

There are about seven million ways of breaking the King's Regulations; to keep one you have to break another.

From Over the Top by Arthur Guy Empey

He was free, that is, if one disregarded the kit hung about his person, or which, despite King's Regulations, he carried in his hands.

From Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable

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