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  • noun Plural of aide-de-camp.

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  • noun Plural form of aide-de-camp.

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Examples

  • Some were long: A windy order on March 28 covered discipline, issue of rations, reading of orders to the men, duties and positions of company officers, drills and other training, where the women of each regiment should march, mounting of guards, and reports and returns to be presented to the aides-de-camp.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Some were long: A windy order on March 28 covered discipline, issue of rations, reading of orders to the men, duties and positions of company officers, drills and other training, where the women of each regiment should march, mounting of guards, and reports and returns to be presented to the aides-de-camp.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Some were long: A windy order on March 28 covered discipline, issue of rations, reading of orders to the men, duties and positions of company officers, drills and other training, where the women of each regiment should march, mounting of guards, and reports and returns to be presented to the aides-de-camp.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Some were long: A windy order on March 28 covered discipline, issue of rations, reading of orders to the men, duties and positions of company officers, drills and other training, where the women of each regiment should march, mounting of guards, and reports and returns to be presented to the aides-de-camp.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • President Barack Obama and his White House aides-de-camp are currently involved in a high-stakes game to get people to like the compromise platter on tax cuts that he negotiated with Mitch McConnell.

    White House Gathers Support For Tax Cuts With Cavalcade Of Exciting Endorsements Jason Linkins 2010

  • Dinner conversations could turn into interrogations, as if they were aides-de-camp or joint chiefs: What's your opinion?

    In new book, David Eisenhower, wife Julie mine memories of Ike's twilight years Manuel Roig-Franzia 2010

  • President Barack Obama and his White House aides-de-camp are currently involved in a high-stakes game to get people to like the compromise platter on tax...

    White House Gathers Support For Tax Cuts With Cavalcade Of Exciting Endorsements Jason Linkins 2010

  • Nancy Pelosi announced that she will run for House minority leader, sending her aides-de-camp into a reality show-like frenzy of back room alliance-building and strained showings of unity.

    HUFFPOST HILL - NOVEMBER 5TH, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • President Barack Obama and his White House aides-de-camp are currently involved in a high-stakes game to get people to like the compromise platter on tax...

    White House Gathers Support For Tax Cuts With Cavalcade Of Exciting Endorsements Jason Linkins 2010

  • President Barack Obama and his White House aides-de-camp are currently involved in a high-stakes game to get people to like the compromise platter on tax cuts that he negotiated with Mitch McConnell.

    White House Gathers Support For Tax Cuts With Cavalcade Of Exciting Endorsements Jason Linkins 2010

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  • And where do they go?!

    February 26, 2009