Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A body-guard; a member of a body-guard.
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Examples
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A great many details were related; but, the wounds being little more than scratches, and the garde-du-corps having let fall some contradictions, it was thought that he was an impostor, who had invented all this story to bring himself into favour.
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A great many details were related; but, the wounds being little more than scratches, and the garde-du-corps having let fall some contradictions, it was thought that he was an impostor, who had invented all this story to bring himself into favour.
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A great many details were related; but, the wounds being little more than scratches, and the garde-du-corps having let fall some contradictions, it was thought that he was an impostor, who had invented all this story to bring himself into favour.
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'Where is La Fayette?' in wrath and indignation, I cried to one of the wounded _garde-du-corps_, whom I had rescued from the knives of my _sans-culotte_ companions.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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It was now broad day; the struggle was at an end; the royal carriages were ordered, and the _garde-du-corps_ were drawn up to follow them.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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"Alas!" said he, with tears in his eyes, "some assassins, who had formed the project of murdering the King, have inflicted several wounds on a garde-du-corps, who overheard them in
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"Alas!" said he, with tears in his eyes, "some assassins, who had formed the project of murdering the King, have inflicted several wounds on a garde-du-corps, who overheard them in
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"Alas!" said he, with tears in his eyes, "some assassins, who had formed the project of murdering the King, have inflicted several wounds on a garde-du-corps, who overheard them in
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