Definitions
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- noun See
squad
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- noun archaic A
squad .
Etymologies
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French
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Examples
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Alan Seeger had barely passed his twenty-eighth birthday, when, charging up to the German trenches on the field of Belloy-en-Santerre, his "escouade" of the Foreign Legion was caught in a deadly flurry of machine-gun fire, and he fell, with most of his comrades, on the blood-stained but reconquered soil.
Poems Alan Seeger 1902
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