Red Cross

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·add. ·- The crusaders or the cause they represented.

II. Red Cross ·add. ·- A hospital or ambulance service established as a result of, though not provided for by, the Geneva convention of 1864; any of the national societies for alleviating the sufferings of the sick and wounded war, also giving aid and relief during great calamities; also, a member or worker of such a society;

— so called from the badge of neutrality; the Geneva cross.

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