Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
presidial . - noun pl. presidiaries (-riz). A guard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A guard.
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Examples
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Tembarom's favorite chair, which occupied a point of vantage, seemed to Mr. Palford and Mr. Grimby when they entered the room to wear the aspect of a sort of presidiary audience.
T. Tembarom 1913
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