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semimilitary en · ADJ
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(not-comparable) Characteristic of the military, but not strictly suitable for it as such.
The appearance of German “brown shirts” parading through the streets in semimilitary dress, with the white stockings that distinguished the Baltic storm troopers, was not reassuring to the population of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
1943, Gregory Meiksins, chapter VI, in The Baltic Riddle, New York: L. B. Fischer, page 102:
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