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Meaning of trainband | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A company of trained civilian militia operating in England and North America between the 16th and the 18th centuries.

historical

Examples

“A train-band captain eke was he / Of famous London town.”
“Another said that he should be glad to know how the Devonshire trainbands, who had fled in confusion before Monmouth's scythemen, would have faced the household troops of Lewis”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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