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embusqué

/ ɑ̃byske /

noun

  1. a man who avoids military conscription by obtaining a government job
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

And an embusqué manqué is a slacker who fortuitously has failed to win the fungus wreath of slackerdom.

Now an embusqué is a slacker who lies in the safe ambush of a soft job.

Do you take me for an embusqué manqué?”

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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