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sergeant-major
n. (alternative form of sergeant major English)
Usage examples of "sergeant-major".
The sergeant-major did not approve, Luis knew this from the blank face he mounted while listening.
After the sergeant-major had been seized, Model turned his chill, monocled stare at the rest of the reluctant soldiers.
The fuglemen fell back into their places, exactly to time again as far as Hornblower could see, but not exactly enough apparently, as the sergeant-major bellowed his discontent and brought the fuglemen out and sent them back again.
A rock beauty, gorgeous in gold and red and black, pecked at the sand, and a pair of the inevitable black and yellow striped sergeant-majors materialized from nowhere, attracted by the scent of the broken sea-egg.