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provost guard

n. a detachment under the command of a provost marshall

Usage examples of "provost guard".

But he seemed more interested in quarreling with the woman than in arguing with the provost guard.

The squad of soldiers from the Provost Guard, whose authority ended at the city wall, was replaced by a squad of the Duke's Guard.

Still, Tal instructed the barons to establish a curfew and enlist some men into a provost guard to protect the citizens from any further looting and violence.

People expected that they would make themselves as troublesome to the Rebels as they were to good citizens and the Police, but they were only pugnacious to the provost guard, and terrible to the people in the rear of the Army who had anything that could be stolen.