Life Guardsman
See also: lifeguardsman
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Life Guards + -man.
Noun edit
Life Guardsman (plural Life Guardsmen)
- (now chiefly historical) A soldier who is a member of the Life Guards. [from 18th c.]
- 1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 299:
- ‘So, Sir, you may quarter two life-guardsmen upon him […] .’