Definitions
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- 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
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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.
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