Zouave
/zu:'ɑ:v,zwɑ:v/
📖 中文释义
- n. 轻步兵
🧩 词形变化
复数 zouaves
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n. One of an active and hardy body of soldiers in the French
- service, originally Arabs, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the
- Arab dress.
- n. Hence, one of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and
- drill of the Zouaves, as was done by a number of volunteer regiments in
- the army of the United States in the Civil War, 1861-65.