corps de garden.
1. The small body of soldiers stationed on guard or as sentinels.
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1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 2 b The bodie of the watch also or standing watch (as we were wont to terme it) they now call after the French, or Wallons, Corps du gard.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres i. 12 Placed for Sentinell or in the Corps de gard.
1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 187 The corps deguarde of the [Pretorian] Souldiers, which at that time kept watch and ward.
1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat v. ii. sig. L The centinell slaine, The corps du garde defeated too.
1716 London Gaz. No. 5452/3 They were opposed by the Corps de Garde.
1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes i. 81 When the Centry saw us, he gave notice thereof to the Cor de Guard, and the Cor de Guard to the Governor.
2. The post or station occupied by a small military guard; a guardroom or guardhouse.
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society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > [noun] > watch-post > guardhouse
corps de garde1587
guard-house1592
court of guarda1616
wardhousea1643
1587 J. Harmar tr. T. de Bèze Serm. 334 (T.) False pastors, whom a man shall find..any where else than in their corps de gard.
1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 59 When he is arrived at the Corps of gard, and hath..provided for all things necessarie for the watch of that night.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxv. xxxix. 579 Their weapons onely stood reared up in their corps de guard [stationibus].
a1622 A. Melville Let. in Life II. 530 (Jam.) Within my own garison and corsgard.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4129/2 The Wall between that Room and the Corps de Guard was..thrown down.
1870 tr. E. Erckmann & P. A. Chatrian Waterloo Blockade Phalsburg in C. Gibbon Casquet of Lit. 125 In front of the archway of the corps-de-garde.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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