Meaning of Fiddler's Green | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A legendary afterlife for retired sailors, where there is perpetual mirth, fiddle music, and dancing.
2. A place of frolic on shore.
   dated, slang
3. A stopping place for fallen cavalrymen on the path to the afterlife.
   US

Examples

“Sam Tyler: Where to now? Gene Hunt: Fiddler's Green. Sam Tyler: I hope that's the name of a pub.”

“1996, Edward L. Daily, We Remember: U.S. Cavalry Association, Turner Publishing Company, page 7, Fiddler's Green is where a cavalryman meets his comrades who have gone before him, at an old canteen, surrounded by a broad meadow, dotted with trees and crossed by many streams. Here the cavalryman stops, unsaddles his horse, and joins his comrades for a visit with many stories, reminiscences, and camaraderie, before continuing his journey. Soldiers of no other service may stop at Fiddler's Green, they must continue to march.”

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