Front | fugleman \FYOO-gul-mun\ |
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Back | noun One who leads a group, company, or party. [From German Flügelmann (flank man), from Flügel (wing) + Mann (man). A fugleman was once a soldier placed usually on a flank during drill to serve as a guide for his company. Earliest documented use: 1804.] "H.L. Mencken was trying single-handedly to drag American culture out of Puritanism and into the twentieth century, to act as fugleman on this side of the Atlantic for a literary and artistic renaissance comparable to the one then taking place on the other side." - Jonathan Yardley; The Sage of Baltimore; The Atlantic Monthly (New York); Dec 2002. |
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