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单词 household troops
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household troops
household troops n. (frequently with capital initials) troops having (at least nominal) responsibility for guarding the monarch or head of state (see household division n.).
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1684 J. Dryden tr. L. Maimbourg Hist. of League i. 116 The King..might have easily dispers'd with his Household Troops.
1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 36 The household troops openly revolted.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. viii. i. 183 In most Asiatic despotisms, the king first trusts to the army against the people, and then to a body of foreign household troops, or Mamlúks, against the rest of the army.
1905 H. S. Jones Rom. Empire (1908) vii. 237 Italy lost another privilege, that of being the recruiting district for the household troops.
2006 Guardian (Nexis) 13 June 10 (caption) Horseshoes being fitted for Saturday's Trooping the Colour parade by Household Troops to mark the Queen's official 80th birthday celebrations.
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