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provost guard U.S.
A body of soldiers acting as military police under a provost-marshal; also, the quarters used by these.
1778Jrnls. U.S. Continental Congress (1908) X. 74 About thirty [officers] who have been confined in the provost guard and in the most loathsome gaols. 1864O. W. Norton Army Lett. (1903) 212 Company K is provost guard and river patrol. 1883Sweet & Knox On Mexican Mustang through Texas xlii. 595 We may be caught by the provost-guard, and put in the bull-pen. 1887G. B. McClellan McClellan's Own Story iv. 69 These..I at once brought to the city and employed as a provost⁓guard. |