lieutenant-colonelcy

noun

noun

UK /lɛfˌtɛnəntˈkəːnəlsi/

Etymology From lieutenant-colonel + -cy.

The position of lieutenant-colonel.

Three years later, at the outbreak of the Revolution, he accepted a lieutenant-colonelcy in ‘La Légion Américaine’, a newly formed all-black unit led by the dashing swordsman and virtuoso violinist Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George.2012, Jonathan Keates, “Mon Père, ce héros”, in Literary Review, section 402:

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