Life Guardsman
See also: lifeguardsman
English
Alternative forms
- lifeguardsman, life-guardsman
Etymology
From Life Guards + -man.
Noun
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 2008, p. 299:
- ‘So, Sir, you may quarter two life-guardsmen upon him […] .’
- 1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 299: