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guardsman|ˈgɑːdzmən|
[In sense 1, f. guard's, genitive of guard n.: cf. draughtsman, headsman. In sense 2, f. Guards pl: see guard n. 8. Cf. guardman.]
1. A man who acts as a guard; a member of a guard. Also fig., a guardian (rare—1).
a1854H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets Ess. i. (1857) 357 So far as literature is concerned, we are by our calling guardsmen of English rights and English merits. 1870Bryant Iliad I. x. 306 Com'st then to find One of the guardsmen or a comrade? 1877Fraser Wigtown 54 (E.D.D.) It was the duty of the guardsman to fire his gun, and thus alarm the inhabitants. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 425 The necessity of his being coupled to guardsman after guardsman, day after day and night after night.
2. A soldier (usually, an officer) of the guards or household troops of the English army.
1817[see horse-guardsman]. 1823Byron Juan xiii. lxxxviii, There was Jack Jargon, the gigantic guardsman. 1844Disraeli Coningsby iv. xiv, A young guardsman who was then a guest at the Castle, and who had been in garrison in Ireland. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. iii. xxii, Tannhäuser, one suspects, was a knight of ill-furnished imagination, hardly of larger discourse than a heavy Guardsman. |