D defs.my
Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Red Cross

· IPA
01 The crusaders or the cause they represented.
  1. 1.
    The crusaders or the cause they represented.
  2. 2.
    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.