flying army
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]flying army (plural flying armies)
- (archaic, military) A body of cavalry and infantry, kept in motion, to cover its own garrisons and to keep the enemy in continual alarm.
- 1749, William Duff, A New and Full, Critical, Biographical, and Geographical History of Scotland:
- a plain demonstration of cowardice in their opposing his late measure of entering England, and pursuing the flying army of the English
References
[edit]- “flying”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.