单词 | garde-du-corps |
释义 | garde-du-corpsn. A body-guard; a member of a body-guard. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > lifeguard or bodyguard > [noun] watchmena1483 guard-corps1583 lifeguard1632 garde-du-corpsa1684 bodyguard1701 a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1651 (1955) III. 42 Then came..the Guard de Corps & other officers [in a procession of Louis XIV]. 1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair iii. i. 22 For not one of these Fellows stirs about without his Guard-du-Corps. 1703 D. Defoe On Standing Army Misc. 206 Queen Elizabeth, tho' she had no Guard du Corps, yet she had her Guards du Terres[!] 1710 Examiner No. 11. ⁋5 I have heard of a certain Illustrious Person, who having a Guard du Corps, that forc'd their Attendance on him, put them into a Livery, and maintain'd them as his Servants. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxviii. 270 Mirobolant..killed four gardes-du-corps with his own point in the barricades of July. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.a1684 |
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