单词 | mutilé |
释义 | mutilén. More fully mutilé de (la) guerre. A war veteran who has suffered disabling injuries in service. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1957 Sunday Times 8 Dec. 27/6 These mutilés of war and accident. 1957 L. Durrell Justine iii. 187 His expression betrayed an access of politeness—as of someone rising in a crowded tram to surrender his place to a mutilé de la guerre. 1969 R. Lowell Notebk. (1970) 195 The Revolution's mutilé de guerre, Shirtless ones dying. 1980 Church Times 28 Mar. 7/2 Jones's plastic left hand..and his totally defeatist attitude..qualify him for entry into that select club of mutilés from whose membership Mr. Greene draws most of his protagonists. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1957 |
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