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red cross, red-cross
1. A cross of a red colour; esp.
a. as the national emblem of England; St. George's Cross.
c1430Agincourt 89 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 96 On euery panes a crosse rede,..Saynt Georges stremers sprede ouer hede. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 29 The Scottis..war all faine..to tak on the reid crose and to be sworne as natiue subiectis of the king of Ingland. 1601J. Wheeler Treat. Comm. 30 Wearing the red Crosse or Cognizance of England. 1652Evelyn Diary 6 Mar., Heraulds carrying the armes of the State (as they cal'd it), namely, the red crosse and Ireland. 1805Scott Last Minstr. i. vi, To see St. George's red cross streaming. 1838Haliburton Clockm. Ser. ii. i, On fresh or on salt water,..down comes the red cross and up go the stars.
b. as the mark made on the doors of infected houses during the London plagues of the 17th century.
1636Direct. Cure Plague H 2 b, That euery house visited be marked with a Red Crosse of a foot long, in the middle of the doore. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 529 A Door,..and a red Crosse on it would..effectually bring a licentious Gallant out of conceit with a Brothell-house. 1664Killigrew Parson's Wedding iv. iii, Let us not forget ourselves in our grief; I am not ambitious of a Red Cross upon the door. 1665Orders Ld. Mayor & Alderman City Lond. B. 2 [as in quot. 1636 above].
c. as the badge of an ambulance service (see 2 c); the Geneva cross (see Geneva2).
1863Resolutions, etc. Conf. Geneva §8 They shall wear round the arm..a white band with a red cross upon it. 1891Hulme Heraldry (1897) 269 The doctors, nurses, and assistants have a white armlet with the red cross, the sacred badge that proclaims their errand of mercy.
2. transf.
†a. An English ship. Obs.—1
1622Capt. Smith New-Eng. Trials Wks. (Arb.) 262 More afraid..then the smallest red crosse [that] crosses the seas would be..of any French Piccaroun [etc.].
b. The Christian side in the Crusades.
1801Scott Fire-King xxvi, The Red-cross wax'd faint, and the Crescent came on. Ibid. xxxvii, How the Red-cross it conquer'd, the Crescent it fell.
c. With capital initial. An ambulance or hospital service organized in accordance with the Geneva convention of 1864, and distinguished by a cross (see 1 c); a person attached to an ambulance or hospital of this kind.
1877W. E. Forster in Reid Life (1888) II. iv. 169, I went down with Russian Red Crosses in the Austrian steamer. 1897C. Bigham With Turkish Army in Thessaly xiv. 121 Detachments of the Red Cross, who worked efficiently and generously throughout.
3. attrib.
a. (sense 1) as red cross ensign, red cross flag, red cross knight, red cross power, red cross rank, red cross shield.
1889Doyle Micah Clarke 23 He..had fought under the *red cross ensign against Frenchman, Don, Dutchman, and Moor.
1820Southey Portr. Bp. Heber, All seas have seen thy *red-cross flag In war triumphantly display'd. a1850Wordsworth Prelude (1959) x. 385 The proud fleet that bears the red-cross flag.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. vi. 38 The *Redcrosse knight was slain with Paynim knife. 1833Tennyson Lady of Shalott iii. i, A red-cross knight for ever kneel'd To a lady in his shield.
1811Scott Don Roderick iii. ii, Till..their own sea hath whelm'd yon *red-cross powers.
1777T. Warton Poems 64 When Arthur rang'd his *red-cross ranks On conscious Camlan's crimson'd banks. 1811Scott Don Roderick ii. lvi, Fast as they land the red-cross ranks unite.
1814― Ld. of Isles vi. xxix, Alone, De Argentine Yet bears on high his *red-cross shield.
b. (sense 1 c or 2 c) as Red Cross Association, Red Cross hospital, Red Cross man, Red Cross Society, Red Cross work.
1873C. A. Gordon Lessons Hygiene Introd., Societies and individuals connected with the Red Cross Associations. 1876W. E. Forster in Reid Life (1888) II. iii. 124 The steamer was crowded with Russians, but many of them really Red Cross men, an ambulance from Kazan. 1878Temple Bar Mag. LIV. 525 Women..who left their..homes to work almost day and night in the rough barracks of the Red Cross hospitals. 1914W. Owen Let. 23 Sept. (1967) 284 There are already too many ladies offering to help with red cross work.
So red-crossed a.
1643Quarles Emblems v. xiii, Tell me, my wishing soul, didst ever trie How fast the wings of red-crost faith can flie? 1900W. S. Churchill in Morning Post 17 Feb. 8/1 White-hooded, red-crossed ambulance waggons. 1916‘Boyd Cable’ Action Front 165 Another [ambulance wagon] was overturned,..and in the Red-Crossed canvas tilts of others gaped huge tears and rents. 1935C. S. Forester Afr. Queen ii. 30 The Mediterranean squadron..with the red-crossed Admiral's flag in the van. 1962J. B. Priestley Margin Released ii. iv. 113 The starched and red-crossed debs. |