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ˈfoot-guards, ˈfootguards
(Formerly also in sing.) A body of picked foot-soldiers for special service as a guard. The Footguards now comprise the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards, the Scots Guards, the Irish Guards, and the Welsh Guards.
1675tr. Machiavelli's Prince (Rtldg. 1883) 289 His German foot-guards consisted formerly of 300 men. 1678tr. Gaya's Art of War i. 75 When the Princes of blood..and the Generals of an Army pass through any Town, the Governours furnish them with a Foot-guard. 1703Steele Tend. Husb. ii. i, The joiner of the Foot-guards has made his Fortune by it. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 588 A strong body of infantry, the English footguards leading the way, stormed..the outworks. |