English Explanatory Dictionary

Dirty Half Hundred

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot.

Word forms

Dirty Half Hundred the Dirty Half Hundred

Etymology

On account of their tattered and soiled appearance during the Peninsular War.

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