Foot Guards
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Foot Guards
First recorded in 1665–75
Example Sentences
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Its items are also worn by the Foot Guards and the Royal Horse Artillery.
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2022
Each corner of the platform is guarded around the clock by units from the Sovereign's Bodyguard, Foot Guards or the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment.
From Reuters • Sep. 12, 2022
The report said, given entries in Gdsm 1's medical records, the panel was "content that Gdsm 1 was aware that they needed corrective lenses to meet the entry standards of the Foot Guards".
From BBC • Aug. 28, 2022
The Foot Guards, comprising the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards and the Scots, Welsh and Irish Guards are perhaps the most glamorously traditional of any extant fighting unit.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Grenadiers, originally the First Foot Guards, represent a royalist infantry regiment which served with the exiled princes in the Spanish army and returned at the Restoration in 1660.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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