guardroom

English

Etymology

guard +‎ room

Noun

guardroom (plural guardrooms)

A room used by soldiers when on guard.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 131–132:
  There were flambeaux on staggering poles every ten strides or so, and at intervals of about a hundred strides, bartizans whose guardroom windows glared like fireworks clung to the bridge piers.
A jail cell in which military prisoners are kept.

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