add. ·- the crusaders or the cause they represented.
2. 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.