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Definition of Brassards
1. brassard [n] - See also: brassard
Literary usage of Brassards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1877)
"A Swiss surgeon says that he saw numerous franc-tireurs, when retreating, put on
brassards which they drew from their pockets. It is asserted that at Metz ..."
2. Details of Military Medical Administration by Joseph Herbert Ford (1918)
"The requisition should be for brassards only. 2. Immediately on receipt of the
numbered brassards turn in to the nearest permanent supply depot, ..."
3. A Military Dictionary, Comprising Terms, Scientific and Otherwise, Connected by George Elliot Voyle, G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson (1876)
"Brass, as now alluded to, is largely used for household furnishings, certain
parts of machinery, and other ornamental and useful articles. brassards — In ..."
4. Belgium: A Personal Narrative by Brand Whitlock (1919)
"They wore, like all the other enslaved Belgians, yellow brassards to distinguish
them from the French, who wore red brassards, but some French men gave them ..."
5. The Story of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety: February 10, 1917 by George Hinckley Lyman (1919)
"5844 Arm brassards, . . . 23846 In addition to the above, 915 ponchos, 300 army
rifles for target practice at armories, officers' chevrons and medical ..."
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