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colorguard

colorguard 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 colorguard

pluralcolorguards

Questions about colorguard

What is colorguard the alternative form of?
Colorguard is the alternative form of color guard.

Words near colorguard in the dictionary

  1. colorfully
  2. colorfulness
  3. colorfulnesses
  4. colorgravure
  5. colorgravures
  6. colorguard
  7. colorguards
  8. coloriferous
  9. colorific
  10. colorification
  11. colorifications

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