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color guards

color guards is the plural 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

Questions about color guards

What is color guards the plural of?
Color guards is the plural of color guard.

Words near color guards in the dictionary

  1. color fonts
  2. color force
  3. color forces
  4. color grading
  5. color guard
  6. color guards
  7. color in
  8. color inside the lines
  9. color killer
  10. color killers
  11. color line

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