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Waves, n. pl. U.S.|weɪvz|
[See quot. 1972.]
The women's section of the United States Naval Reserve, established in 1942. In sing., a member of this Reserve, or, since 1948, a woman serving in the U.S. Navy. Cf. Wren2.
1942Chicago Tribune 9 Aug. i. 6/1 The navy's new women's reserve corps—the Waves—will learn to drill, salute, wear the regular insignia of the service..and they will receive..detailed instructions in navy customs. 1943N. W. Ross Waves 1 The initials of the waves stand for the words ‘Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service’. Ibid. 150 Orders tell the wave where she is to go next. 1972J. B. Hancock Lady in Navy 61 In 1942, when the planning for the Women's Reserve began, the question of a short and catchy name was posed... Miss [Elizabeth] Reynard addressed herself to the problem... ‘I realized that there were two letters which had to be in it: W for women and V for volunteer... So I played with those two letters and the idea of the sea and finally came up with ‘Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service’—WAVES.’ (Later, when it was realized that Appointed applied only to officers, Accepted was the word substituted.) 1977Time 10 Jan. 43/3 Mainbocher's creations graced Wallis Warfield Simpson at her marriage to the Duke of Windsor, as well as millions of waves and Girl Scouts, whose uniforms he fashioned. |