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Old guard   /oʊld gɑrd/   Listen
Old guard

noun
1.
A faction that is unwilling to accept new ideas.





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"Old guard" Quotes from Famous Books



... of correspondence arising out of the article in the February number, cataloguing the Old Guard who were in the House of Commons twenty years ago and stand there to-day. One or two demand acknowledgment as adding to the information there garnered. Mr. Thomas Whitworth, of Liverpool, a member of the House of Commons from 1869 to 1874, has made independent investigation, ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... that the third and fifth guards (old style) are merged in one, that the fourth and sixth are also merged in one, and the first guard—the old guard in quarte—is dispensed with altogether, and its place taken by a low hanging guard, which is a variation of the old seventh guard, formed with the hand held rather ...
— Broad-Sword and Single-Stick • R. G. Allanson-Winn


Words linked to "Old guard" :   sect, faction


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