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gentleman-at-arms (-at ärmz′)

noun pl. gentlemen-at-arms gen′tlemen-at-arms′

any of a corps of men of rank, traditionally forty, who accompany the British sovereign as a military guard on important occasions

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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