Meaning of Indian file | Babel Free

Definitions

Single file.

US, especially, uncommon

Examples

“In about an hour they returned very much intoxicated, singing their dead war songs, and every warrior naked, painted black from head to foot: as they approached the house in Indian file, each one repeated the following words […]”

“He stopped abruptly, as if sorry he had said so much, and a moment later the party were walking in Indian file through the turnstile, Sir John Burney leading the way.”

CEFR level