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A soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion)
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legionnaire
Word definitions for legionnaire in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Legionnaire could refer to: A member of the French Foreign Legion A misused term for a member of the ancient Roman Army A member of the Spanish Legion A member of the Iron Guard (The Legion of the Archangel Michael) A member of the American Legion The 1998 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES legionnaire's disease EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Beer followed pizza and we looked round the Roman amphitheatre which had been built by Roman legionnaires 1,800 years before. ▪ But for today's legionnaires Franco is little ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A member of a legion, especially the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Foreign%20Legion.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1818, from French légionnaire , from légion (see legion ). Legionnaires' Disease , caused by Legionella pneumophilia , was named after the lethal outbreak of July 1976 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia's Bellevue Stratford Hotel. Hence Legionella ...
Usage examples of legionnaire.
As legionnaires continued to battle Woads on the back of the carriage, Tristran and Bors unleashed arrow after arrow into the fray.
The faggots put on a fine show, marching like legionnaires in the quick-step, centurions to the fore and levites to the rear, and even a leafy twig aloft in lieu of an eagle.
Mesopotamia High marching along throwing her tan kneecaps first at one curb and then at the other and masturbating the longest baton in the band between those far-flung thighs, producing Mis in the senile Legionnaires lining the route, but I had been bombed on Gomer City and my sexual stride had been broken.
The loricated legionnaire armor was made of overlapping steel plates, lorica, that were effectively thin steel bands held together by small fittings on the inside.
Hillrun rousted off-duty legionnaires out of their racks, an alarm started to bleat, and a T-2 lumbered toward the rear of the embassy.
Oregon grape and salal, and the dank mossy forest of the Marian apparitions were all poorly served by the mass of travelers, who stormed through them like Roman legionnaires.
The Akron Legionnaires shunned the Tirran soldiers as inferiors and warned that any peasants who set foot in the great hall would be cut down without mercy.
Legionnaire led Berner to the blood-spattered post, where so many other men had stood and waited for death.
French army including Foreign Legionnaires and about three thousand Montagnard and Vietnamese colonial troops set up a string of strongpoints in this valley, all named after women who had been mistresses of General de Castries.
Two shadows dressed in green uniform But before they could carry out their task, Porta had turned his gun on the one and the Legionnaire had planted his knife in the other.
The Legionnaire, who was the only one apart from Tiny and Porta who seemed unmoved by the crazy cavortings of the sled, patted the boy condescendingly on the back.
As legionnaires continued to battle Woads on the back of the carriage, Tristran and Bors unleashed arrow after arrow into the fray.
Legionnaire cutting apart the air with hot, lethal metal, hammering several hundred fifty-millimeter slugs into the nose of the Jagatai and peeling away several layers of its thick armor plating.
The fellow who generally relieved him at six, an American Legionnaire and retired oysterman named Bill McWilliams, always took the stairs up from the quarters on eighty-one.
He was in some land of barracks, with several Legionnaires sitting about.