What does sergeant-at-arms mean?

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sergeant-at-arms

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English

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sergeants-at-arms (plural) serjeant-at-arms (alternative)

serjeant-at-arms

serjeant-at-arms

What does sergeant-at-arms mean?: A person charged with keeping order at a meeting, especially a meeting of the legislature.

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