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colour guard

colour 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 colour guard

pluralcolour guards

Questions about colour guard

What is colour guard the alternative form of?
Colour guard is the alternative form of color guard.

Words near colour guard in the dictionary

  1. colour fastness
  2. colour field
  3. colour field painting
  4. colour force
  5. colour forces
  6. colour guard
  7. colour guards
  8. colour in
  9. colour inside the lines
  10. colour killer
  11. colour killers

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