escort

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1. escort - Noun

2. escort - Verb

Meaning

A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.

Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.

To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.

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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?... the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews. Golda Meir

I want to see a film, they send the Israeli army reserves to escort me! What kind of life is this? Golda Meir

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all. Claudia Black

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort. Stanisław Lem

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward. Henry Ward Beecher

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