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单词 scots guard
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Scots Guardn.

Brit. /ˌskɒts ˈɡɑːd/, U.S. /ˌskɑts ˈɡɑrd/
Forms: see Scots adj. and n. and guard n. Also with lower-case initial in the second element.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Scots adj., guard n.
Etymology: < Scots adj. + guard n. In sense 1 after Middle French garde escossoize, French garde écossaise (a1483 or earlier).Compare the following earlier reference in Middle French to a Scottish soldier of the French royal bodyguard: ung..compaignon escossois, archier..de sa grand garde, lit. ‘a..Scottish soldier, an archer..of his great guard’ (a1467).
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.
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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.
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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
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).
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