Life Guardsman
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See also: lifeguardsman
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Life Guards + -man.
Noun[edit]
Life Guardsman (plural Life Guardsmen)
- (now chiefly historical) A soldier who is a member of the Life Guards. [from 18th c.]
- 1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 299:
- ‘So, Sir, you may quarter two life-guardsmen upon him […] .’