aid-de-camp
Americannoun
plural
aids-de-campExample Sentences
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Cheerily a Japanese aid-de-camp spoke of 'taking over Chinchow by Christmas.'
From Time Magazine Archive
The nightmare was the same nearly everywhere: the investigators showed up in Paris last fall in the company of former Senate Page Boy Joseph Stewart, 22, who came along as aid-de-camp.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cheerily a Japanese aid-de-camp spoke of "taking over Chinchow by Christmas."
From Time Magazine Archive
On my mother's side I am descended from Nathaniel Pendleton, who is a brother of Edmund Pendleton, and aid-de-camp of General Green during the Revolutionary war.
From Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work by Alexander, Rev. Gross
On the breaking-up of the council, Napoleon said to him, "You are my aid-de-camp."
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
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