colour sergeant

English

Noun

colour sergeant (plural colour sergeants)

(British) A non-commissioned officer in some infantry regiments of the British army, equivalent in rank to a staff sergeant in most other armies. A colour sergeant ranks above a sergeant and below a warrant officer.
(entomology) A nymphalid butterfly, Athyma nefte, of tropical Asia.

Translations

officer of the British army

Irish: bratsáirsint m
Manx: sarjant mergey m

References

Colour-sergeant, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Enlisted Ranks and Insignia of the British Army

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