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单词 Zouave
释义

Zouave

/zuːˈɑːv / /zwɑːv /
noun
1A member of a light-infantry corps in the French army, originally of Algerians and long retaining their oriental uniform.In an attempt to avoid further bloodshed Pius asked his own army, the Zouaves, to lay down their arms, fled the Quirinal (papal palace) and shut himself up in the Vatican....
  • Her father, Jules-Joseph, a retired army captain of the Zouaves who had lost a leg in the Italian wars, was a tax-collector with local political aspirations.
  • Assigned to the 12th Regiment of Zouaves, Folcher had spent much of the Phoney War on exercises, moving around frequently and eventually being assigned in March to a sector of the line behind the Ardennes.
2 (zouaves) Women’s trousers with wide tops, tapering to a narrow ankle.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French, from Kabyle Zouaoua, the name of a tribe.

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