Life Guardsman

See also: lifeguardsman

English

Alternative forms

lifeguardsman, life-guardsman

Etymology

From Life Guards +‎ -man.

Noun

Life Guardsman (plural Life Guardsmen)

(now chiefly historical) A soldier who is a member of the Life Guards. [from 18th c.]
- 1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 299:
  ‘So, Sir, you may quarter two life-guardsmen upon him […] .’

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