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war-hero en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of war hero.
   alt of war hero
   • The war-hero knew the sound. 2011, Ralph Thorpe, The Gospel of the King of the Jews:
   • Remember that good looking guy I showed you in the magazine that was a war-hero and now he's an actor? 2006, Vicki Renfroe, Hearts of the Children:
   • But Francis was not interested in his friend's experiences. For Francis had had a job in the War Office—whereas Angus was a war-hero with shattered nerves. 1922, D. H. Lawrence, Aaron's Rod:
   • When the maverick patrician and war-hero Marcus Manlius Capitolinus championed the popular cause, paying off the private debts of many plebeians from his own resources and promising a general redress of grievances, he was met by a conservative counter-attack led by another war-hero, Marcus Furius Camillus, the man now acclaimed as 'the second founder of Rome' for his role in the city's recovery after the Gallic invasion. 2013, Neil Faulkner, Rome: Empire of the Eagles, 753 BC – AD 476:

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