The long-standing or original members of a group, party, etc., esp. when viewed as (overly) conservative; a group of traditionalists within a particular context, regarded collectively
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People who had been there literally for- for decades um wouldn't ever go anywhere else, um were kind-of the old-guard and they kind-of took pride in the way things went and- and ah kind-of instructed us rookies on the traditions of the school and how things should go. |
Old-fashioned group |