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单词 camp-follower
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camp-followern.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: camp n.2, follower n.
Etymology: < camp n.2 + follower n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˌcamp-ˈfollower.
A man or woman who follows or hangs on to a camp or army, without being in military service.
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1810 Duke of Wellington Let. 29 Jan. in Dispatches (1838) V. 464 The proceedings of the General Court Martial, on the trial of Edward Poole, camp follower.
1850 W. Irving Mahomet II. 265 Here he and several thousand of his soldiers and camp-followers were cut to pieces.
1876 Daily News 3 Nov. 5/4 Those unfortunates who are known under the euphemistic appellation of ‘camp followers’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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