honor guard

Noun

Meaning

an escort for a distinguished guest or for the casket at a military funeral

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After the service, an honor guard from the Michigan National Guard laid the U.S. flag over the casket and carried it to a horse-drawn hearse, which was intended to carry it, in daylight, to the cemetery. Source: Internet

Chairman Mills himself, who had been a Civil War colleague of Doubleday and a member of the honor guard for Doubleday's body as it lay in state in New York City, never recalled hearing Doubleday describe his role as the inventor. Source: Internet

Contemporary history further President Fidel V. Ramos salutes at the Pentagon with U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen and an honor guard during a State visit in 1998. Source: Internet

After the swearing-in, Sakellaropoulou lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the square outside parliament, before a presidential honor guard. Source: Internet

IN HONOR: Members of the Corpus Christi Police Department Honor Guard perform a volley during a 9/11 Memorial Event at Sherrill Park in Corpus Christi, Texas. Source: Internet

In the funeral house, the body of the King is surrounded by an honor guard and weeping concubines, crying over the loss of sexual pleasure brought about by his death. Source: Internet

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