‖ garde-du-corps
(gardədykɔr)
[Fr.; lit. ‘guard of the body’.]
A body-guard; a member of a body-guard.
| 1651 Evelyn Diary 7 Sept., Then came..the garde du corps and other officers. 1701 Farquhar Sir H. Wildair iii. i, For not one of these fellows stirs about without his garde-du-corps. 1703 De Foe On Standing Army Misc. 206 Queen Elizabeth, tho' she had no Guard du Corps, yet she had her Guards du Terres[!] 1710 Examiner No. 11 ¶5 I have heard of a certain Illustrious Person, who having a Guard du Corps, that forc'd their Attendance on him, put them into a Livery, and maintain'd them as his Servants. 1849 Thackeray Pendennis xxviii, Mirobolant..killed four gardes-du-corps with his own point in the barricades of July. |