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parade-ground orig. U.S.
[parade n.]
A place where troops parade; now the more usual term than parade n. 4.
1724in Temple & Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. (1875) 200 If the enemy get within the parade ground. 1843N. Boone Jrnl. 31 July in L. Pelzer Marches of Dragoons (1917) 237 By one o'clock our command was formed on the parade ground of Fort Gibson. 1846T. L. McKenney Mem. I. v. 103 The level of the ground, and its freedom from undergrowth, were such as to give it the appearance of a parade ground. 1891Century Mag. Mar. 715 The rats were so numerous that they were common sights on the parade-ground. 1933H. H. Symonds Walking in Lake District ii. 44 Before reaching the camp you pass..the ‘parade ground’, a large square of cleared ground. 1975J. Cleary Safe House i. 18 Camp 93{ddd}long huts, a parade ground with a pock-marked surface. 1977D. Beaty Excellency xx. 221 The Major led the way outside... The parade ground..was floodlit.
b. transf. and attrib., esp. in phr. parade-ground bearing, parade-ground manner, parade-ground voice, etc.
1863‘G. Hamilton’ Gala-Days 174 Besides abundance of food and parade ground, these happy fowls have a very agreeable prospect. 1867A. D. Whitney Summer in L. Goldthwaite's Life vi. 129 Clothes-lines like a parade-ground of telegraphs. 1892Harper's Mag. Dec. 137 Both dismounted at the parade-ground gate. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Sept. 693/4 The preposterous chief constable is of no use at all, and his parade-ground manners make a suitable contrast to Colonel Gethryn's cool and gentlemanly efficiency. 1937‘M. Innes’ Hamlet, Revenge! i. iv. 74 The precocious bass, favoured on public-school parade-grounds. 1937J. R. Firth Tongues of Men 41 There is a well-known Prussian parade-ground type of voice. 1944J. D. Carr Till Death do us Part i. 8 Major Horace Price..had made a trumpet of his hands and was addressing them in a parade-ground voice. 1961M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) ii. 28 He expected the boys to have a parade-ground bearing. a1963S. Plath Crossing Water (1971) 23 Pawing like paradeground horses. 1964L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin iv. 25 The parade ground of Europe has always been that vast area..that stretches eastward from the Elbe. 1965New Statesman 9 Apr. 558/3 In a peremptory parade-ground voice Lord Balniel repeatedly bellowed the name of the current occupant of the chair (‘Sir Herbert!’ ‘Sir Samuel!’) in an effort to raise points of order. 1973‘M. Innes’ Appleby's Answer xvi. 138 He had a..parade-ground manner. 1976R. Condon Whisper of Axe i. xxi. 130 A spit-and-polish, parade-ground major. 1978R. Lewis Uncertain Sound vi. 189 He was all tension..no longer the stiff, military, parade ground bearing. |