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Tross.

baggage train (a unit’s supply vehicles and the troops resonsible for them)

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Meaning & usage

noun/tʁɔs/
  1. baggage train (a unit’s supply vehicles and the troops resonsible for them)

    masculine · strong
  2. group or column of people moving somewhere

    figuratively · masculine · strong
  3. entourage, escort, group of accompanying associates

    especially · masculine · strong
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle High German trosse (“baggage”), from Old French trosse, trousse (“package, bundle”). The semantic development from “baggage” to “those who move the baggage” occurred around 1500. Cognate with English truss, which see.

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