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单词 irish guard
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Irish guardn.

Brit. /ˌʌɪrɪʃ ˈɡɑːd/, U.S. /ˌaɪrɪʃ ˈɡɑrd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Irish adj., guard n.
Etymology: < Irish adj. + guard n. Compare earlier Scots Guard n.
1. A regiment of guards made up of Irish soldiers, esp. one forming part of a monarch's personal troops or guard. Also in plural. Now historical.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > for guard duty > others
Tilt Yard guard1528
safeguard1609
Irish guard1642
water-guard1776
forage-guard1819
tilt guard1894
1642 R. Maxwell in E. Borlase Hist. Execrable Irish Rebellion (1680) 137 The later was seen by all those of the Deponents Family, and besides by many of his Irish guard.
1705 J. Michelborne Ireland Preserv'd ii. iv. 90 Come, Captain of the Irish Guards, you shall be well attended.
1787 J. Ferrar Hist. Limerick v. 342 Amidst a circle of officers, he applied to O'Cavenagh, colonel of the Irish guards.
1850 Aberdeen Jrnl. 6 Mar. 8/5 The plan proposed by the Pope of establishing an Irish guard.
1874 Times 30 June 10/2 In the reigns of Charles and James II., a regiment of Irish Guards had served with honour, like its English and Scotch fellows.
1908 P. Nolan Irish Dames of Ypres ii. i. 378 The Spanish King promoted him to the command of his Irish guard, with the rank of colonel.
2. In the 17th and 18th cent.: a squadron of the British Navy with responsibility for patrolling the Irish Sea. Now historical.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > squadron > specific
Irish guard1644
blue1653
Blue Squadron1665
white squadron1666
white1668
red1690
red squadron1702
1644 in State Papers Domest.: Chas. I (P.R.O.: SP 16/504/67) 556/4 That the Commissioners of the Navy order the victuallers of the navy to provide victuals for two months..for the ‘Lion’, ‘Entrance’, and ‘Crescent’ frigate, part of the Irish guard, that they may keep at sea till other ships be provided.
1650 T. Scott Let. 2 Nov. in J. Nickolls Orig. Lett. & Papers of State Addressed to Oliver Cromwell (1743) 28 Order is taken with the victualers of the Navy..to make provision for two hundred men for this winter's guard..; and for the rest of the Irish guard, stoares are made at Kinsale.
1962 J. R. Powell Navy in Eng. Civil War x. 150 Nineteen ships were allotted to the Irish Guard, of which nine were to guard Milford Haven and to ply about Land's End.
2001 P. M. Kerrigan in P. Lenihan Conquest & Resistance 155 In 1643 the ‘Irish Guard’ of Parliament's navy consisted of eight warships and thirteen armed merchant ships.
3. In plural, with capital initials. An infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1900 during the Boer War (1899–1902). Also in singular: a member of this regiment.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > British
Ulsters1649
Scots Guardsa1675
fusilier1680
guards1682
Scots Dragoons1689
Scots Fusiliers1689
Inniskilling1715
Scots Greys1728
blue1737
Black Watch1739
Oxford blues1766
green linnets1793
Grenadiers1800
slashers1802
the Buffs1806
tartan1817
Gay Gordons1823
cheesemongers1824
Green Jacket1824
The Bays1837
RHA1837
dirty half-hundred1841
die-hard1844
lifeguard1849
cherry-picker1865
lancer-regiment1868
cheeses1877
Territorial Regiment1877
the Sweeps1879
dirty shirts1887
Scottish Rifles1888
shiner1891
Yorkshire1898
imperials1899
Irish guards1902
Hampshires1904
BEF1914
Old Contemptibles1915
contemptibles1917
Tank Corps1917
the Tins1918
skins1928
pioneer corps1939
red devils1943
Blues and Royals1968
U.D.R.1969
1899 Times 25 Oct. 7/3 The part which is being taken by Irishmen in the present war has brought forward once more in many Irish circles the question of the establishment of an Imperial regiment of Irish Guards.]
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 684/1 The Queen..issued an order..for a new regiment of Irish Guards to be constituted.
1923 R. Kipling (title) The Irish Guards in the Great War.
1967 A. Farrar-Hockley Death of Army v. 179 General Landon had sent him the 2nd Grenadier Guards and the Irish Guards.
1968 L. Burton Vulnerable Children 137 She might have a son—her first baby—and he'll go into the Air Force, or join up as an Irish Guard.
1999 Soldier June 16/2 The battle-group has..a mortar section from the Irish Guards.
2007 Oxf. Times (Nexis) 5 July Kieron Mallon, who is himself a former Irish Guard.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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