| 单词 | kitchener's army |
| 释义 | > as lemmasKitchener's army a. General attributive and in the genitive, chiefly with reference to the soldiers recruited while Kitchener was Secretary of State for War, as Kitchener battalion, Kitchener's army, etc. Cf. sense 2. Now historical. ΚΠ 1914 N.Y. Tribune 12 Aug. 3/7 (heading) Five thousand recruits for Kitchener's army enrolled in 12 hours. 1916 J. N. Hall Kitchener's Mob i. 1 ‘Kitchener's Mob’ they were called in the early days of August, 1914, when London hoardings were clamorous with the first calls for volunteers. 1916 J. N. Hall Kitchener's Mob iii. 23 ‘Kitchener's Rag-Time Army I calls it!’ growls the veteran of South African fame. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 136 Kitchener's blue, a name given to the blue serge uniform served out to recruits in the autumn of 1914 in consequence of the shortage of khaki. 1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War 43 The first Kitchener battalion, they said, to hold the sector. 1930 C. D. Baker-Carr From Chauffeur to Brigadier ix. 127 The new Kitchener Divisions were now beginning to arrive. 1965 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Long Trail 139 K1 (K One), the first 100,000 of the New (Kitchener's) Army of 1914 volunteers. 2013 M. Axworthy Revolutionary Iran iv. 219 The young men of Kitchener's army preparing for similar infantry attacks against prepared defences on the Somme in 1916 or elsewhere. < as lemmas |
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