(n.pl.) A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards.".
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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| MLA | Webster's. "guards" 27 May 2011. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/guards/definitions/2014035> |