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Definition of Troupers
1. trouper [n] - See also: trouper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Troupers
Literary usage of Troupers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen by Aberdeen (Scotland) (1872)
"... troupers with ammunition from the south, and troupers vpon the 7th February thare
... prisoners troupers from the south awl Laird Drum. " }™ Laird Drum. ..."
2. Entertaining the American Army: The American Stage and Lyceum in the World War by James William Evans, Gardner Ludwig Harding, Neysa McMein, Anita Parkhurst, Ethel Rundquist (1921)
"... CHAPTER XIV STRENUOUS DAYS FOR THE troupers "Hang out our banners on the
outward walls; The cry is still, 'They come.' " MACBETH. ..."
3. The Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration by James Kirkton (1817)
"When that was past, the councill referred it to the commissioner to take his own
way to collect them, and his way was this : He sent abroad the troupers of ..."
4. Italy: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1904)
"(dark blue uniform with, silver buttons and red facings, dark blue trousers with
a wide red stripe for the foot guards, and grey troupers with black stripes ..."
5. Sketches of Scottish Church history: embracing the period from the by Thomas M'Crie (1841)
"... and troupers of his army, as by ordinar pastors and English ministers; ...
commanders, and troupers, when they enterit the pulpits, did not observe our ..."
6. The Miscellany of the Spalding Club by Spalding Club, Aberdeen, John Stuart (1841)
"... and does not intend to serve as ordinarie troupers vnder others, ye will be
pleased to deale with them to ..."
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