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单词 guard-room
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guard-roomn.

Brit. /ˈɡɑːdruːm/, /ˈɡɑːdrʊm/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrdˌrum/, /ˈɡɑrdˌrʊm/
a. A room for the accommodation of a (military) guard.
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society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > [noun] > watch-post > guardroom
guard-chamber1611
guard-room1762
main guard1902
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 213 They at length arrived at the palace gate, and after waiting half an hour, were admitted into the guard room.
1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. i. 24 In the guard-room are stationed the viceroy's body-guards, who are relieved every morning between eight and nine.
1829 W. Irving Chron. Conq. Granada (1850) 42 The guard-room was a scene rather of massacre than combat.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 264 The Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers are responsible that no drinking, swearing, gaming, or other irregularity, is allowed in the Guard-Room.
attributive.1818 Lady Charleville in Lady Morgan Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 244 A corrupt, disorganised, uneducated mass of ardent-minded guard-room youths.
b. A room in which prisoners are guarded.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > guardhouse
wardhouse1590
guard-house1592
vaughouse1616
guard1714
guard-room1826
1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 2 Nov. (1939) 265 In the guard-room were the heroes of La Vendée.
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