Horse Guards

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

Horse Guards

the cavalry regiment that, together with the Life Guards, comprises the cavalry part of the British sovereign's Household Brigade
their headquarters in Whitehall, London: also the headquarters of the British Army

First recorded in 1635–45

They have a living faith in the potency of the Horse-Guards, and in the maxim that "Safe bind is sure find."

A battalion of the English Horse Guards was drawn up on the meadows at the side of the avenue.

Presently the smokes of the cook fires arose, and in the gray light we could see the horse-guards bringing in the mounts.

A barn occupied by men of the Horse Guards Blue was ingeniously rigged up by its temporary tenants.

They had turned down Whitehall, and passed the big cuirassiers upon their black chargers at the gate of the Horse Guards.

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