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Commissary general

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an officer in charge of some special department of army service
The officer in charge of the commissariat and transport department, or of the ordnance store department.
The commissary general of subsistence.

See also: Commissary Commissary Commissary


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Brooke is commander in chief, I am commissary general, the other fellows are staff officers, and you, ladies, are company.
Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
The worthy Commissary General of the Carlist forces was under the impression that I was looking at him; but what I had in my eye was a jumble of butterfly women and winged youths and the soft sheen of Argand lamps gleaming on an arrow of gold in the hair of a head that seemed to evade my outstretched hand.
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