embusqué
See also: embusque
English
Etymology
French embusqué
Noun
embusqué (plural embusqués)
- One who avoids military service; a draft dodger.
- 1917, The New York Times Current History of the European War:
- A woman was recently fined for calling a policeman an embusqué, even in the heat of argument.
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French
Pronunciation
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Participle
embusqué (feminine embusquée, masculine plural embusqués, feminine plural embusquées)
- past participle of embusquer
Further reading
- “embusqué”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.