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Definition of Doughboys
1. doughboy [n] - See also: doughboy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doughboys
Literary usage of Doughboys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. S.O.S. America's Miracle in France by Isaac Frederick Marcosson (1919)
"V—Feeding the doughboys IN an office on the second floor of the historic barracks
building at Tours which houses the Headquarters of the Services of Supply ..."
2. History of the 89th Division, U. S. A.: From Its Organization in 1917 by George H. English, War Society of the 89th Division (1920)
"The doughboys of the 178th Infantry Brigade. 89th Division, resting in trench
near Beney during the St. ..."
3. King's Complete History of the World War ...: 1914-1918. Europe's War with by William C. King (1922)
"... American Marines and doughboys had arrived in sufficient numbers to rout them
out and start them on the run back to the Rhine. ..."
4. Paris Days and London Nights by Alice Ziska Snyder, Milton Valentine Snyder (1921)
"... Half Irish but Admits Other Half is Mostly Holes and Bandages—Elsie Janis and
doughboys—Melville Stone Criticizes Censorship—Big Bertha Again at Work. ..."
5. Paris Days and London Nights by Alice Ziska Snyder, Milton Valentine Snyder (1921)
"... the Front and by French Shrapnel from the Rear—doughboys at Cantigny Prepare
for Battle by Throwing away All Their Personal Possessions—A French Almoner ..."
6. The Glory of the Coming: What Mine Eyes Have Seen of Americans in Action in by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1918)
"Here come the doughboys— Their pay is in arrears. To the swinging lilt of the
air the column angled past where my cart was halted; and as it passed, ..."
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