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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The senior surgeon in a regiment of the housohold troops of Great Britain.

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Examples

  • Lucien Chardon, a young fellow of one-and-twenty or thereabouts, was the son of a surgeon-major who had retired with a wound from the republican army.

    Two Poets 2007

  • Lucien Chardon, a young fellow of one-and-twenty or thereabouts, was the son of a surgeon-major who had retired with a wound from the republican army.

    Two Poets 2007

  • In 1813 the surgeon-major of the regiment, by the merest chance, heard the name of Mirouet, was struck by it, and wrote to Doctor Minoret, to whom he was under obligations.

    Ursula 2006

  • He was the son of Thure Theorell, surgeon-major to the

    Hugo Theorell - Biography 1964

  • On November 14th, at seven o'clock in the morning, the mobiles of Souvigny assembled in the great square of the town; their chaplain was the Abbe Constantin, their surgeon-major, Dr. Reynaud.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • After studying at Montpellier and Paris, he served as surgeon-major in the French army in Alsace; then after two years at

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

  • The conduct of a surgeon-major of the guard, some time after, came near compromising the entire corps in his Majesty's opinion.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • Another was explaining to another that, as for him, he would very much have liked to go, but the surgeon-major had taken him round the waist to keep him by force in the depot with the auxiliary.

    Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

  • He was seen by Courville, a surgeon-major in a military hospital, where he had swallowed a wooden box wrapped in plain white paper.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Courville, a surgeon-major in a military hospital, where he had swallowed a wooden box wrapped in plain white paper.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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