national guardsmann.
/ˌnaʃn̩(ə)l ˈɡɑːdzmən/, /ˌnaʃən(ə)l ˈɡɑːdzmən/, U.S. /ˌnæʃən(ə)l ˈɡɑrdzm(ə)n/, /ˌnæʃn(ə)l ˈɡɑrdzm(ə)n/ΚΠ
1831 tr. Lafayette in Times 5 Jan. 2/1 To-day I am no more than your old friend the veteran National Guardsman.
1860 N. Amer. Rev. July 205 You say that the National Guardsmen are miserable. I have four thousand such here, from Anjou and Brittany, with round hats, no sacks, but having good fire-arms.
2. A member of the U.S. National Guard.
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1866 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. 5/5 To a National Guardsman these boards are quite useful in producing what every soldier ought to have, bright buttons.
1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 449/1 With the new year the National Guardsmen will have acquired a taste for this skirmish line shooting, and entries will crowd thick and fast.
1948 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 24 June 1/2 National Guardsmen patrolled streets against looters after the business district was under water.
1992 D. F. Gates Chief vi. 102 With 13,000 National Guardsmen, we now were able to use the Highway Patrol to rim the area and keep people out.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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