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Brewer's: Virgin Mary's Guard
(The). The Scotch guard of France, organised in 1448 by Charles VII. Louis XI. made the Virgin Mary their colonel. Disbanded in 1830.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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