Definition of "provincials" [provincials]

• Plural form of provincial. (noun)

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• "Canada with ease, thought only of keeping out of Montcalm's way, pleading in excuse that they feared to trust the "provincials" -- who had thus far done all the fighting that had been done, and won all the successes."
• "General James Wolfe who was regarded almost as a military saint had called the provincials the dirtiest, most contemptible, cowardly dogs you can conceive."
• ""But the provincials were the last to leave the field at Ticonderoga.""