| 单词 | king's parade |
| 释义 | > as lemmasking's parade king's parade n. British Navy slang (now historical and rare) the quarterdeck of a ship.So named because of the requirement to salute on stepping on to it as a mark of respect to the king. ΚΠ 1834 W. N. Glascock Naval Sketch-bk. 2nd Ser. I. v. 74 An unusual assemblage of mates and mids had also congregated on the ‘king's parade’. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 423 King's parade, a name given to the quarter-deck of a man-of-war, which is customarily saluted by touching the hat when stepping on it. 1986 R. Woodman Baltic Mission iv. 44 ‘The Captain desires that you attend him on the quarterdeck’... ‘What the devil does he want me on the King's parade for?’ < as lemmas |
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