| 单词 | household infantry |
| 释义 | > as lemmashousehold infantry household infantry n. (also with capital initials) Military infantry troops with (at least nominal) responsibility for guarding the monarch or head of state.In the British Army these troops (until 1950 more usually known as the Brigade of Guards) are the Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish, and Welsh Guards. Cf. footguard n. 1. ΚΠ 1827 Morning Post 19 July The half-yearly muster of the Household Infantry. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 295 The household infantry consisted of two regiments. 1902 Times 10 Apr. 12/1 The chief military duties, such as supplying guards of honour and performing other ceremonial functions, usually the work of the Household Infantry. 1998 Past & Present Aug. 226 Installed on the throne in 1939, he spurned all advice, treated his subordinates like an oversized prep-school bully and had indiscreet homosexual affairs with members of the household infantry. < as lemmas |
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