单词 | scots guard |
释义 | Scots Guardn. Army. 1. (A member of) an elite military unit assigned as a bodyguard to the French monarchy, originally composed of Scottish soldiers. Now historical.Established in the mid 15th cent. by Charles VII of France (1403–61) to honour the Scots who died in the Battle of Verneuil (1424). The unit was disbanded in 1830 with the fall of the French monarchy, by which point it was composed of French soldiers. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > lifeguard or bodyguard > [noun] > specific praetorya1387 pretoira1393 Switzer1591 Scots Guard1602 palatines1623 Swiss guardc1660 yeomanry1673 immortal1803 household brigade1814 Varangian Guard1831 1602 J. Colville Parænese sig. bbiij Ve haue yit yat honor to gard the most Royall persons of the most Christian Kings our Scottis gard nychtlie keping the keyis of thair hous. a1617 Sir J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1683) 14 Captain Ninean Cockburn then one of the Scots Guard, had obtained liberty to visit his Friends in Scotland, and was lately returned. 1704 Lives, Eng. & Forein I. 191 [The Marquess of Montrose] was sent to the court of France, and Lewis the XIIIth gave him a command in his Scots Guards, before he was twenty Years of age. 1774 Hibernian Mag. June 322/2 The King [sc. Louis XVI] is attended by six of the Scots guards in white sattin. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. i. 48 The Scots Guard consisted of one hundred gensdarmes and two hundred archers. 1867 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 III. xxvii. 108 The celebrated Scots Guard was established—it is said to have begun in the few who survived the slaughter at Verneuil. 1894 A. Lang in W. Scott Quentin Durward (new ed.) Introd. p. xviii But there were, by that time, few Scots in the so-called Scots Guards, which was finally disbanded at the Revolution of 1830. 2001 J. V. Polišenský in S. Murdoch Scotl. & Thirty Years' War iv. 118 The Scots guard had a significantly less Scottish membership after 1620. 2. In plural. A British Army infantry regiment, chiefly composed of Scottish soldiers or soldiers with Scottish sympathies, now part of the Guards Division. Also in early use: a Scottish infantry regiment forming part of a monarch's personal troops or guards (now historical). Cf. Scots adj. 6a. ΘΚΠ 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 a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1645 202/1 A Sally out of Newarke with four hundred horse and a thousand foot upon the Scots Guards, the Bridge being down, none of the rest of the Army could come to assist them. 1706 A. Boyer Hist. Reign Queen Anne: Year the Fourth 286 Some pretend, that the Council of Scotland refused to let the Scots Guards go over this War. 1745 Mil. Dict. in Theatre of Present War in Netherlands at Guards The Regiment of Scots Guards having likewise two Battalions. 1837 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 7 Jan. Stations of regiments and depots... Scots Guards, 1st bat., Portman street. 1880 S. D. Scott Brit. Army III. v. 197 The Scots Guards supported the civil authority during the religious ferments which distracted the country. 1914 R. Hodder Brit. Regiments 17 ‘The Jocks.’ The origin of this name for the Scots Guards is obvious. 1961 W. Vaughan-Thomas Anzio vi. 112 The Scots Guards captured a German officer who had driven into their lines while looking for sites for the unpleasant Nebelwerfers, or six-barrel mortars. 2009 Mirror (Nexis) 3 Aug. 15 The MoD said the injured personnel were from F Company of the Scots Guards, stationed at the Victoria Barracks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1602 |
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