sepoy

/see-poi/US // ˈsi pɔɪ //UK // (ˈsiːpɔɪ) //

扫荡者,扫荡队,遣散人员,扫荡

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a native soldier, usually an infantryman, in the service of Europeans, especially of the British.

Fully two miles away, on the south side of the ravine, were the sepoy lines, and another group of isolated bungalows.
Yet he feared to meet her eyes, and was glad of a saluting sepoy who swaggered jauntily past the open gate.
It was with the utmost difficulty that his wiser subordinates got him to disarm the sepoy regiments in Agra itself.
It should be explained that a sepoy (properly “sipahi”) is an infantry soldier, and a sowar a mounted one.
The Sikh ranks had been mainly recruited from our disbanded Sepoy soldiery and deserters.