flying army

English

Noun

flying army (plural flying armies)

  1. A body of cavalry and infantry, kept in motion, to cover its own garrisons and to keep the enemy in continual alarm.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for flying army in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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