guardroom

English

Etymology

guard +‎ room

Noun

guardroom (plural guardrooms)

1. A room used by soldiers when on guard.
   • 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 131–132:

     There were flambeaux on staggering poles every ten strides or so, and at intervals of about a hundred strides, bartizans whose guardroom windows glared like fireworks clung to the bridge piers.

2. A jail cell in which military prisoners are kept.