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colour guard
noun
- a military guard in a parade, ceremony, etc, that carries and escorts the flag or regimental colours
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From front and left came a tempest of lead; again the colours--both--fell, and all the colour-guard.
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A shot cut away the staff of their precious colours and killed the last man of the colour-guard.
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Only one man of the colour-guard remains, but he carries out their gloriously torn flag in triumph.
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Allan Gold, fighting with the 65th, took the colours from the last of the colour guard.
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He was of the colour-guard, and all the colour-guard were laughing.
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