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‖ garde-du-corps|gardədykɔr|
[Fr.; lit. ‘guard of the body’.]
A body-guard; a member of a body-guard.
1651Evelyn Diary 7 Sept., Then came..the garde du corps and other officers. 1701Farquhar Sir H. Wildair iii. i, For not one of these fellows stirs about without his garde-du-corps. 1703De Foe On Standing Army Misc. 206 Queen Elizabeth, tho' she had no Guard du Corps, yet she had her Guards du Terres[!] 1710Examiner No. 11 ⁋5 I have heard of a certain Illustrious Person, who having a Guard du Corps, that forc'd their Attendance on him, put them into a Livery, and maintain'd them as his Servants. 1849Thackeray Pendennis xxviii, Mirobolant..killed four gardes-du-corps with his own point in the barricades of July. |