Definitions
Wiktionary
- interj. Used in Remembrance Day ceremonies as a caution against forgetting those who died in war.
- interj. Used on ANZAC Day memorials in remembrance of those who fell in the First World War
Etymologies
- From Rudyard Kipling′s 1897 poem Recessional. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Trace as espionage jargon surely was adapted from similar usages in the wider world: skip trace, or lest we forget Mr. Keene, tracer of lost persons.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lest we forget’.
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Anzac Day
Words heard on and around Anzac Day, a public holiday in Australia on 25th April. It commemmorates the landings on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey during World War I by ANZAC forces, ie. the Aust...
cenotaph, dawn service, kokoda, servicemen, servicewomen, anzac, gallipoli, the dardanelles, digger, simpson and his d..., tin hat, medal and 77 more...
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