watch guard
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of watch guard
First recorded in 1825–35
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The Black Lives Matter movement was born after the shooting death in 2012 of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, by a self-appointed neighborhood watch guard in Florida.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 2, 2015
It darted into her mind, how the two dollars and a half she had paid for those round toes, would have bought the silk for a watch guard and left a great deal to spare.
From The House in Town by Susan Warner
Matilda knew how to make a very pretty, strong sort of watch guard; if she only had some strong brown silk to weave it of.
From The House in Town by Susan Warner
For ornament, other than plain shirt studs, a plain seal ring, a simple watch guard and a rarely-worn scarf pin, is denied him.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
Vulgarity reveled in the plaid of his jaunty business suit, flaunted in the links of his glittering watch guard, and gleamed in the folds of his gorgeous neck gear.
From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lawrence L. Lynch
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