gold stick

noun

1

: the gold-headed staff presented by the British sovereign to the colonel of a regiment of Life Guardsmen or to the captain of the gentlemen-at-arms

2

usually capitalized G&S : one entitled to carry the gold stick on state occasions

Gold Sticks and Silver Sticks have waited closely upon the persons of their sovereign

—Elizabeth II

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