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English
Etymology
From truce + -er.
Noun
trucer (plural trucers)
- An advocate, proponent, or negotiator of a truce.
1865, W H Chamberlin, History of the Eighty-First Regiment Ohio Infantry Volunteers, During the War of the Rebellion, Cincinnati, Ohio: Gazette Steam Printing House, , page 112:Instantly, at the same place, a picket volley answered, and the trucers, each supposing that the opposite party was getting treacherous, took to their heels and gained their respective works, inwardly execrating the wretch who broke the truce by firing the unlucky shot.
1906, Cleveland Medical and Surgical Reporter, page 235:Consequently we have returned the “olive twig” to its trucers and plan to resume our cannonades, if within 48 hours we get no fixed inaugural date.
1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part III, page 587:[…] his standpoint was, to belt and blucher him afore the hole pleading churchal and submarine bar yonder but he made no class at all in port and cemented palships between our trucers, being a refugee, didn’t he, Jimmy?
1992, Niall C Harrington, Kerry Landing, Anvil Books, →ISBN, page 8:Pseudo patriots and ‘trucers’ were also active.
1994, Malcolm Brown, Shirley Seaton, Christmas Truce: The Western Front December 1914 (Pan Grand Strategy Series), Pan Books, published 2011, →ISBN:[…] trucing began simultaneously at many points of the line and the principal trucers in the British sector were the Protestant Saxons.