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Provost Guard

Definition: Provost Guard

Provost Guard

Noun

1. A detachment under the command of a provost marshall.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Commercial Usage: Provost Guard

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Books

  • Rebel Watchdog: The Confederate States Army Provost Guard (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Provost Guard

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Culpeper, Va. Officers of the 80th New York Infantry, Provost Guard. Credit: Library of Congress.

Manassas, Va. Provost guard of the 9th New York Infantry. Credit: Library of Congress.

Brandy Station, Va. Quarters of Capt. Harry Clinton, quartermaster, Provost Guard. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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Anagrams: Provost Guard

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-g-o-o-p-r-r-s-t-u-v"

-3 letters: gastropod, trapdoors.

-4 letters: dropouts, outdrags, outdrops, outroars, outsavor, postdrug, postgrad, sauropod, trapdoor, vaporous.

-5 letters: apodous, ardours, dropout, dustrag, gosport, orators, outdrag, outdrop, outroar, outsoar, parodos, parrots, provost, ragouts, ragtops, raptors, torpors, turgors, updarts, uproars, uproots, upstood, uropods, vapours.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Provost Guard


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 6F 76 6F 73 74      47 75 61 72 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01101111 01110110 01101111 01110011 01110100 00100000 01000111 01110101 01100001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#111 &#118 &#111 &#115 &#116 &#32 &#71 &#117 &#97 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 006F 0076 006F 0073 0074      0047 0075 0061 0072 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5084818881858624187678470

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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