aide-de-camp

NOUN
  1. an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer
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How To Use aide-de-camp In A Sentence

  • There was a knock on the door, and Elspeth joined Darkwind as Tremane's aide-now styled his "seneschal," though he still acted and probably thought of himself as a military aide-de-camp-entered diffidently. Storm Breaking
  • He also served as an aide-de-camp to General Wedemeyer.
  • On each side of this his long-eared aide-de-camp, in a kind of pannier, were slung his water-jars, covered with fig-leaves to protect them from the sun. The Alhambra
  • But today we have some new "buzz,"courtesy of Page Six, speculating that maybe the book was written by longtime McCain speechwriter and aide-de-camp Mark Salter, whose "adjective-filled style is similar to the 'O' author's. Mark Salter Caught Up In 'O' Speculation
  • In the scene in the trailer, when he's being briefed by the general, all of them - the general, the CIA agent, the aide-de-camp - look straight at the camera when they talk to Willard.
  • He should lay in stores for the next campaign and was empowered to appoint an aide-de-camp, military secretary, and other staff officers. George Washington’s First War
  • My amanuensis is a gentleman who acted as my aide-de-camp, and I beg you will acquaint his good father that he acquitted himself highly to my satisfaction, and showed himself deserving the stock from which he sprung. Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I
  • In 1920, embarrassingly soon after becoming naval aide-de-camp to George V, Sinclair was divorced.
  • Mandralisca surveyed his bandy-legged little aide-de-camp with a long, slow, curious look. KING OF DREAMS
  • Lord Fitzroy Somerset, eighth son of the duke of Beaufort, was appointed aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future duke of Wellington, in 1808.
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