trench-stained

Updated: May 15, 2025

The soldiers gathered round us as the motor stopped throngs of chasseurs-a-pied in faded, trench-stained uniforms for few visitors climb to this point, and their pleasure at the sight of new faces was presently expressed in a large "Vive l'Amerique!" scrawled on the door of the car.

Edith Wharton - Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort