zouave

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim One of a body of soldiers in the French service, originally Kabyle, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the Kabyle dress.
2. isim One of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and drill of the Zouaves in French service, as was done by a number of volunteer regiments in the army of the United States in the Civil War (1861–65).
3. isim a French soldier in the Union army of the Unites States civil war, or a Union soldier in a French soldier's uniform.

   “During the Civil War in the United States, some of the Northern Volunteer regiments adpoted ^([sic]) the zouave uniforms and were known as zouaves.”