Definition of Detrainments

1. detrainment [n] - See also: detrainment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detrainments

detractresses
detracts
detraditionalisation
detraditionalise
detraditionalised
detraditionalising
detraditionalization
detraditionalize
detraditionalized
detraditionalizes
detraditionalizing
detrain
detrained
detraining
detrainment
detrainments (current term)
detrains
detransitivise
detransitivize
detraque
detraques
detrect
detrected
detrecting
detrects
detrend
detrended
detrending
detrends
detribalisation

Literary usage of Detrainments

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

1. The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1914)
"... and detrainments, and the long, bustling caterpillars of cavalry and infantry, the maggot-like waggons, the huge beetles of great guns, crawling under ..."

2. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"Continual detrainments of French troops were taking place at L. A further advance was to be permitted to them under no conditions. ..."

3. The New York Times Current History of the European War (1915)
"... for some time that . the enemy was attempting a movement around our extreme right flank. Continual detrainments of French troops were taking place at ..."

4. World's War Events: Recorded by Statesmen, Commanders, Historians and by Men by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill (1919)
"To cover the detrainments of this fresh army Reinforce- in the district Clermont-Beauvais-Boix a cav- airy corps and four territorial divisions ..."

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