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noun
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground, especially in warfare.
- (archaeology) an area within a site excavated for archaeological investigation.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- 1999 April 22, daSage <[email protected]>, "Re: holy mother of god! WTF??", alt.gothic.fashion, Usenet,
- :I don't think that they should ban the coats, but I do feel that it would be fairly insensitive for one to wear a to (Denver) schools, at least for the remainder of the school year.
- 1999 April 24, Xiphias Gladius <[email protected]>, "Re: trenchcoat mafia", ne.general.selected, Usenet,
- :I was the first person in my high school to wear a and fedora constantly, and Ben was one of the first to wear a black .
- 2007, Nina Garcia, The Little Black Book of Style, HarperCollins?, as excerpted in w:Elle, Elle, October 2007, page 138,
- :A classic can work in any kind of weather and goes well with almost anything....
Translations: - French: tranchée
- German: Graben
- Italian: fosso (general), trincea (military)
- Spanish: trinchera
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verb (trench, es)
- Usually with 'upon', to invade, usually regarding the rights or the exclusive authority of another.
- 1640: w:Ben Jonson, Ben Jonson, Underwoods, page 68:
- Shee is the Judge, Thou Executioner, Or if thou needs would'st upon her power, Thou mightst have yet enjoy'd thy crueltie, With some more thrift, and more varietie.
- 1949: w:Charles Austin Beard, Charles Austin Beard, American Government and Politics, page 16:
- He could make what laws he pleased, as long as those laws did not upon property rights.
- 2005: Carl von Clausewitz, J. J. Graham, On War, page 261:
- ... our ideas, therefore, must upon the province of tactics.
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