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Reviewing stand   /rivjˈuɪŋ stænd/   Listen
Reviewing stand

noun
1.
A stand from which a parade or military force can be reviewed.





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"Reviewing stand" Quotes from Famous Books



... of a display of military style. The troops reviewed had been in the thick of the fight and there was an enormous amount of mud. There was no reviewing stand except a muddy elevation, on which the commander was to stand. Nobody seemed to know where he was or where he would come from, but it was passed around that he was to be there and the soldiers watched for him eagerly. Most of them thought that he was a little, fat man. They ...
— A Journey Through France in War Time • Joseph G. Butler, Jr.
... army marched northward to Washington, where, on May 24, 1865, on the second day of the famous Grand Review, General Sherman and his victorious army marched past the presidential reviewing stand—"sixty-five thousand men," says General Sherman, "in splendid physique, who had just completed a march of nearly two thousand miles in a hostile country." Then came the disbandment; Sherman bade his "boys" good-by in ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 • Various


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