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Foot Guards ExamplesWord Origin noun (used with a plural verb)
- (in Britain) an infantry unit forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
Compare Coldstream Guards, household troops. Origin of Foot Guards First recorded in 1665–75 Examples from the Web for foot guards Historical Examples of foot guards
The Duke of Ormond has got his regiment of foot-guards, I know not who has the rest.
Jonathan Swift
Fifty foot-guards, with drums and trumpets, closed the procession.
William Makepeace Thackeray
There are the body-guards, the foot-guards, the horse-guards, and other such troops.
Robert Neilson Stephens
He who had first approached was Count von Romberg, a captain in the foot-guards.
Robert Neilson Stephens
The Brigade of Guards—the infantry of the household troops—comprises the five regiments of foot-guards.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2
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