guardroom

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guardroom

/ˈɡɑɹdˌɹum/ US

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From guard + room.

noun guardrooms

A room used by soldiers when on guard. There were flambeaux on staggering poles every ten strides or so, and at intervals of about a hundred strides, bartizans whose guardroom windows glared like fireworks clung to the bridge piers.
A jail cell in which military prisoners are kept.

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@misc{guardroom_2026,
  title = {guardroom},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/guardroom},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}