The Collaborative International Dictionary
Color sergeant \Col"or ser"geant\ See under Sergeant.
WordNet
n. a sergeant in a color guard who carries one of the colors
Usage examples of "color sergeant".
Trent confirmed to the former color sergeant in the Royal Engineers.
A lavishly mustached color sergeant in the British Army military police regiment, he was pretty damned good with a 9-mm Browning.
I was so happy before, as a simple color sergeant, as merely a comrade of your troop.
Armistead walked out into the open, saw the men lying in long clumped rows, as if plowed up out of the earth, here and there an officer standing, a color sergeant, the flags erect in the earth and limp, no winds at all, and the shells bursting in sharp puffs everywhere, all down the line.
He was the oldest of the team, forty-one, and a former color sergeant in the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, since spot-promoted to sergeant major.