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mess kit
noun
- a portable set of usually metal cooking and eating utensils, used especially by soldiers and campers.
mess kit
noun
- formal evening wear for officers
- Also calledmess gear eating utensils used esp in the field
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of mess kit1
First recorded in 1875–80
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Even musicians in King’s band traveled with mess kits and canned goods for times they couldn’t find a restaurant to serve them.
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It was filled to the brim with everything from Army Air Corps documents to his portable mess kit and even — though I didn't know it then — his pistol and bullets from the war.
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After dinner, Terry went to a small brook to wash his mess kit.
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On separate tables are some of the artifacts that were among the remains: combat boots, a 1940s penny, a mess kit with three plastic spoons and a helmet.
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Other artifacts, such as boots, canteens, mess kits and a steel helmet, were with the remains.
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