Definition of "guardroom" []

• A room used by guards on duty. (noun)
• A room in which military prisoners are confined. (noun)

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• "It was a little wooden barrack, surrounded by a wall of the same material; a sentinel stood at the gate, I passed by him, and, entering the building, found myself in a rude kind of guardroom; several soldiers were lying asleep on a wooden couch at one end, others lounged on benches by the side of a turf fire."
• "The two sat on a wobbly mattress in a guardroom, the only spot they could find to talk privately in a block that holds petty criminals and insurgents who openly discuss their hatred of foreigners."
• "All the way to the guardroom. on March 11, 2010 at 4: 02 pm Finger Moose"