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sergeant-at-arms (-ət ärmz′)

noun pl. sergeants-at-arms ser′geants-at-arms′

an officer appointed to keep order in a legislature, court, social club, etc.

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