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English
Etymology
From Middle English turmes pl, from Old French turme, from Latin turma (“troop, squadron, team”).
Noun
turm (plural turms)
- (obsolete) A group of people, especially a military unit of cavalrymen.
1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: J M for John Starkey , →OCLC, page 81, lines 61–66:Thence to the gates caſt round thine eye, and ſee / What conflux iſſuing forth, or entring in: / Pretors, Proconſuls to thir Provinces / Haſting or on return, in robes of State; / Lictors and rods the enſigns of thir power; / Legions and Cohorts, turmes of horſe and wings: […]
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