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color-guard

color-guard is the alternative form of color guard.

Meaning of color guard

Noun

color guard (plural color guards)

  1. (scouting) A uniformed group, especially of soldiers, police officers, Scouts, or school representatives, who present their institution's flag (and sometimes other flags) on ceremonial occasions.
    • The survivors fell sullenly back behind a fence, within easy range of the Confederate rifle-pits. Just before reaching it the last of the color guard was shot, and the flag fell in the open.1895, Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, “The Flag-Bearer”, in Hero Tales from American History

Forms of color-guard

pluralcolor-guards

Questions about color-guard

What is color-guard the alternative form of?
Color-guard is the alternative form of color guard.

Words near color-guard in the dictionary

  1. color-coded
  2. color-codes
  3. color-coding
  4. color-coordinate
  5. color-coordinated
  6. color-guard
  7. color-guards
  8. color-octet
  9. color-octets
  10. color-proud
  11. color-screw

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