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trooper

[troo-per] / ˈtru pər /
NOUN
cannon fodder
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Three troope of horse, ten Companies of foote Are enterd now the Port.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

He second thee: sir Corporall Nym troope on.

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge

He was accompanied with two of his sonnes which were exceeding faire and strong, and with a troope of Indians who had all their bowes and arrowes in marueilous good order.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Hakluyt, Richard

Romes Royall Empresse, Vnfurnisht of our well beseeming troope?

From Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare, William

The tragick pomp of his sad exequies, And deadly burning torches are at hand, I must accompany the mornefull troope: And sacryfice my teares to the Gods below.

From The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge by Anonymous




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