Riveting Tales from a Belgian Field Hospital, 1914
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blīdē/ noun BRITISH
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an informal and typically affectionate term for Britain
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or England, chiefly as used by soldiers of WW1 and WW2
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military slang: a wound suffered by a soldier in WW1 that was sufficiently serious to merit being shipped home to Britain.
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