单词 | scots dutch |
释义 | > as lemmasScots Dutch a. Of a regiment or company in a military force outside the British Isles: composed chiefly of Scottish soldiers (or soldiers of Scottish origin). Frequently in the names of specific companies and regiments, as Scots Brigade, Scots Dutch, etc. Cf. Scots Guard n. 1. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > band of mercenaries > [noun] > specific Scots Brigadec1600 Scottish Guard1629 Scottish1632 Scotch1637 Scots Dutch1893 c1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 191 [In Henry Tudor's army,] of Scoittis men ane thowsand men of armes quhilk vas callit the Scoittis cumpanie. 1627 G. Barry tr. H. Hugo Seige of Breda iii. 27 Furnished both with his owne [Italian regiment], and a scots regiment of the count of arguiel in the vane garde with fourtine companies. 1637 R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim. ii. 25 Which..thereafter was still called the Scots Briggad commanded by Hepburne. 1646 Sc. Acts Chas. I (1870) VI. i. 597/2 Sr. Robert Murray Lieut: colonell to the Scotis Regiment of the guard in France. a1722 J. Lauder Hist. Observes (1840) 203 The King [i.e. the Duke of Monmouth] beside his suadadoes, called over from Holland his 3 Scots regiments. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. i. 4 An ensign's commission, presented me without purchase, in one of the Scots brigade regiments in the pay of Holland. 1879 Dominion Ann. Reg. & Rev. 1878 267 The French population..remember that in the old days it was a Scots regiment—the King's bodyguard—which was the most popular corps in Paris. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xii. 132 Lieutenant-colonel in a regiment of the Scots-Dutch. 1972 A. Shepperd Connaught Rangers 4 The last colours carried by the Scots Brigade in Holland and laid aside in 1782 remained in that country for over a century until 1884. 2006 R. B. Manning Apprenticeship in Arms iv. 72 Three chaplains accompanied another Scots regiment levied for the service of the duke of Guelder in 1647. < as lemmas |
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