| 释义 |
grand guard
Also 6 graungarde, 7 grangard.
[f. grand a. + guard n.; in sense 1 app. a. OF. *grant garde.]
1. ‘A piece of plate armour used in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the tournament. It covered the breast and left shoulder, forming an additional protection for that side of the body; and it was affixed to the breastplate by screws, and hooked on the helmet’ (Fairholt's Costume, 1885).
1546Hall Chron., Hen. VIII an. 5 (1550) 29 The one bare y⊇ helme, the seconde his graungarde. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. xii. lxix. (1612) 291 The Poldrons, Grangard, Vambraces, Gauntlets for either hand. 1612Two Noble K. iii. vi, You care not for a grand-guard? 1898Visct. Dillon in Archæol. Jrnl. Ser. ii. V. 313 The grandguard and pas⁓guard are ornamented with the same designs.
2. (See quot. 1802.)
1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3923/2 A Party of 1200 of the Enemy's Horse and Dragoons..attempted to surprise our Grand Guard. 1763Munro in J. Grant Hist. India (1876) I. xix. 104/2, I..ordered in our advance posts and grand-guards. 1802C. James Milit. Dict., Grand Guard, a guard composed of three or four squadrons of horse, commanded by a field officer, posted about a mile and a half from the camp, on the right and left wings, towards the enemy, for the better security of the camp. 1844Regul. & Ord. Army 267 The Grand Guards of Cavalry are to be formed, and the Horses picketed. |