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‖ goum|gum|
Also Goum.
[Fr., ad. Arab. gūm, dial. var. of ḳaum band, troop.]
1. a. A group of North African tribesmen. b. A contingent of North African soldiers (in French service).
2. Such a tribesman or soldier.
So goumier |-je|, a North African serving in a goum.
1845Times 5 Nov. 5/1 Bou Maza left his dead on the field of battle, and retreated with his goum, composed of about 300 cavalry, without counting a great number of infantry. 1846Times 10 Mar. 6/3 Captain Ducrot, with his Goums and a squadron of Spahis, was the first to overtake the fugitives. 1859F. C. L. Wraxall tr. Mem. Robert-Houdin II. vii. 185 The strange aspect the capital [of Algeria] assumed on the arrival of the goums of the Tell and the South. 1903Daily Chron. 25 Feb. 9/2 Far more interesting,..was the fantasia of the Goums... The five hundred horsemen assembled at the top of the course. 1907Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 5/1 The goumiers are paid for their services, and..pillaging is a crime which is severely punished. 1908Ibid. 17 Mar. 5/1 The first section of the new goum from Algeria. 1946E. Linklater Private Angelo x. 114 A wild and huge array of tribesmen from the Atlas mountains..known as Goums. 1955Times 3 May 8/2 A band of 60 Algerian rebels on Sunday night surprised a detachment of 21 goumiers, or native auxiliary troops, in a forest guard post. 1961B. Fergusson Watery Maze xii. 315 General Magnan, the French Commander, whose force comprised the 9th Colonial Division, 2,000 Moroccan goums and some French commandos. 1961R. Maugham Slaves of Timbuktu 207 In the back were two Goumiers attached to the Commandant's staff and an African servant. 1970I. Origo Images & Shadows ix. 242 The Moroccan troops with the Fifth Army, the Goums, who had ransacked everything. |