Gardemaß

Etymology
From 🇰🇲.

Noun

 * 1)  the minimum height required for service in an elite “guard” regiment
 * 2)  a required or preferred height in any context, tallness as such

Usage notes

 * The Prussian is often claimed to have been 188 cm, but this applied only to the so-called  (“long fellows”), a particular representative regiment at Potsdam (dissolved in 1806). The general  appears to have varied between 170 and 180 cm.