Yeomanry

(noun.) a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army.

(noun.) class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land.

校对:维多利亚

• The yeomanry are precisely the order of people with whom I feel I can have nothing to do. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Thus speaking, he opened another hutch, and took out from it a couple of broadswords and bucklers, such as were used by the yeomanry of the period. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The public services to which the yeomanry were bound, were not less arbitrary than the private ones. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• They ought to make me a magistrate and a captain of yeomanry. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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