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Old Guard

noun

  1. the imperial guard created in 1804 by Napoleon: it made the last French charge at Waterloo.
  2. (in the U.S.) the conservative element of any political party, especially the Republican Party.
  3. (usually lowercase) the influential, established, more conservative members of any body, group, movement, etc.:

    the old guard of New York society.



old guard

1

noun

  1. a group that works for a long-established or old-fashioned cause or principle
  2. the conservative element in a political party or other group


Old Guard

2

noun

  1. the French imperial guard created by Napoleon in 1804

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Old Guard1

Translation of French Vieille Garde

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Old Guard1

C19: from Old Guard

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Example Sentences

News of an opening with Havana has enraged the old guard of Miami that has longed to see the Castro family brought down.

All these talented chefs are graduating from these old-guard kitchens and branching out and the market is saturated.

The old-guard journalists who dismiss her as a blogueuse have no idea how diligently Riahi trained herself as a journalist.

The Constitutional Court is “absolutely part of the old guard trying to usurp power,” he tells The Daily Beast.

Its old guard pushed back Monday, and I felt a powerful jolt of deja vu: Didn't the Pentagon just run this experiment?

It was in the garden of the Tuileries, and twenty-four battalions of the Old Guard filed past our great chief.

Now an officer of the Old Guard is seen to ride up the pass.

Something done to the two old guard-rooms on each side of the gate.

The old guard was overwhelmed, or rather would have been overwhelmed if not already well-nigh crumbled away.

From then on they had begun their regular duty tours accompanied, at first, by one of the old guard on each tour.

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