Coldstream
Proper noun
Meaning
Coldstream
A town and civil parish in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, the home of the Coldstream Guards, a regiment in the British Army.
Phrases with the word
Examples
Brought up at Coldstream, in Mid Canterbury, he was about 15 when he sold his first dog, Roy, for £10.
Kenny Digby—the name he preferred to the more formal —was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards in 1914 and fought in World War I. When he sailed to the battlefields of France at twenty-one, he took his beloved horse, Kitty, with him.
Morgan (2004). p. 135. * "Beau Douro"; Wellington found this amusing when hearing it used by a Colonel of the Coldstream Guards.
Some 392 troops of 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, which recruits from the North East and South West, have been dodging venomous snakes, battling through heavy rains and blazing sun during October and November.
It includes a stint in the Coldstream Guards, and periods as a pop group manager, antiques dealer and scrap metal merchant.
The barracks -- which house a number of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and independent companies of the Grenadier and Coldstream Guards -- were the site of shooting events during the 2012 London Olympics.