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Definition of Trainbands
1. trainband [n] - See also: trainband
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trainbands
Literary usage of Trainbands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. M'Fingal: A Modern Epic Poem by John Trumbull (1856)
"... But ah! in danger, with dishonor The sword perfidious fails its owner; That
sword, which oft had stood its ground, By huge trainbands encircled round; ..."
2. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"It was not forgotten that Hamp- den and Pym had been protected from lawless
tyranny by the London trainbands ; that, in the great crisis of the civil war, ..."
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