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单词 Horse Guards
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Definition of Horse Guards in English:

Horse Guards

plural noun
  • (in the UK) the mounted squadrons provided from the Household Cavalry for ceremonial duties.

    (英国)皇家骑兵卫队

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Royall was brigadier-general of the province's Horse Guards, the governor's ceremonial bodyguard, but he came to distrust the English governor, Francis Bernard.
    • The poem's dedicatee, ‘C.T.W.', was Trooper Charles Thomas Wooldridge, of Her Majesty's Royal Horse Guards.
    • As for the record, set in 1992 when Lord Lloyd-Webber paid 10.2m [pounds sterling] for another English-period picture, of the Horse Guards in London, its days are surely numbered.
    • Nightingale, an irregular by disposition and circumstance, conspired with reformers in the army, parliament, bureaucracy, and court to fight the diehard Horse Guards and stingy ministers.
    • One of the newcomers was Major Learner, formerly of Her Majesty's Horse Guards.
    • The second son of Charles and Diana just turned 21 (this last week), and will soon emerge from Sandhurst to enter a military career, probably with the Horse Guards.

Definition of Horse Guards in US English:

Horse Guards

plural nounˈhôrs ˈˌɡärdz
  • A mounted brigade from the household troops of the British monarch, used for ceremonial occasions.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Nightingale, an irregular by disposition and circumstance, conspired with reformers in the army, parliament, bureaucracy, and court to fight the diehard Horse Guards and stingy ministers.
    • One of the newcomers was Major Learner, formerly of Her Majesty's Horse Guards.
    • The poem's dedicatee, ‘C.T.W.', was Trooper Charles Thomas Wooldridge, of Her Majesty's Royal Horse Guards.
    • Royall was brigadier-general of the province's Horse Guards, the governor's ceremonial bodyguard, but he came to distrust the English governor, Francis Bernard.
    • As for the record, set in 1992 when Lord Lloyd-Webber paid 10.2m [pounds sterling] for another English-period picture, of the Horse Guards in London, its days are surely numbered.
    • The second son of Charles and Diana just turned 21 (this last week), and will soon emerge from Sandhurst to enter a military career, probably with the Horse Guards.
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