Definition of Croix de Guerre

1. Noun. A French military decoration for gallantry.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Croix De Guerre

Crocodilia
Crocodilus
Crocodylia
Crocodylidae
Crocodylus
Crocodylus niloticus
Crocodylus porosus
Crocq's disease
Crocus sativus
Crocuta
Crocuta crocuta
Croesus
Croft
Crohn
Crohn's disease
Croix de Guerre (current term)
Croker
Cromwell
Cromwellian
Cromwellians
Cronartium
Cronartium ribicola
Crone
Cronenbergian
Crones
Cronos
Cronus
Crooke's granules
Crooke's hyaline change
Crooke's hyaline degeneration

Literary usage of Croix de Guerre

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War: A Complete by Emmett Jay Scott (1919)
"... Land Killed Four Germans and Wounded Twenty-eight Others Single Handed—First American Soldiers to Receive the French Croix de Guerre—Other Instances ..."

2. History of the 126th Infantry in the War with Germany by Emil B. Gansser (1920)
"K, Croix de Guerre. SGT. ALEXANDER SALIK. Co. K, DSC and Croix de Guerre. ... M. Croix de Guerre. 1ST LT. CHAS. EH BATES. Co. M, DSC and Croix de Guerre. ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"Of these 36 priests and 34 seminarians died, 5 were decorated with the Legion of Honor and 98 priests and 36 seminarians received the croix de guerre. ..."

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