color guard

1. 1.

   a ceremonial escort for the (regimental) colors

   Broaderescort

Questions about color guard

What does color guard mean?

color guard means "a ceremonial escort for the (regimental) colors".

Is color guard a common word?

color guard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.