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embusqué
/ ɑ̃byske /
noun
- a man who avoids military conscription by obtaining a government job
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Word History and Origins
Origin of embusqué1
C20: from embusquer to lie in ambush, shirk
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Example Sentences
During the month that had elapsed Robin had been recaptured, other officers had escaped, the whole course of the war was changing, and here was I still embusqué in Constantinople.
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And an embusqué manqué is a slacker who fortuitously has failed to win the fungus wreath of slackerdom.
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Now an embusqué is a slacker who lies in the safe ambush of a soft job.
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Do you take me for an embusqué manqué?”
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Yet he- 40 - was obliged to wait upon a little screaming man, five feet two, whose nose had been shot away, exchanged for the Médaille Militaire upon his breast, who screamed out to him: “Bring me the basin, embusqué!”
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