Definition of "nom de guerre" []

• A fictitious name; a pseudonym. (noun)

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• "Under the nom de guerre "the Kid," his most bloody and desperate deeds were wrought—a name which will live in the annals of daring crime so long as those of Dick Turpin and Claude Duval shall be remembered."
• "Brigadier General Edward Johnson held the crest of the Allegheny Mountains with a small contingent and had beaten off one attack with so much success that he had received the nom de guerre "Allegheny" Johnson."
• "Here I first made the acquaintance of Samuel L. Clemens, who was then beginning to earn fame for his nom de guerre of Mark Twain as a writer on the staff of the Territorial Enterprise, of which Joseph T. Goodman was the editor."