aid-de-camp
occas. (chiefly U.S.) var. aide-de-camp.
| 1690 R. Davies Jrnl. 4 Aug. (1857) 134 Scravenmore's aid-de-camp came to us again. 1732 [see aide-de-camp]. 1762 C. Brietzcke Diary 9 Feb. in N. & Q. (1959) CCIV. 136/2 Jack spoke to Mr. Percival in the Boxes who was aid de camp to Hodgson. 1776 Jrnl. Cont. Congress V. 418 Resolved, That the aids de camp of the commander in chief rank as lieutenant colonels. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxxiii. 532 He..was made full captain and aid-de-camp of General McClellan. |