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Legionary

noun
(pl. legionaries)
1.
A soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion).  Synonym: legionnaire.



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"Legionary" Quotes from Famous Books



... was the miners' chapel. There Father Roman said Mass every day before a sombre altar-piece representing the Resurrection, the grey slab of the tombstone balanced on one corner, a figure soaring upwards, long-limbed and livid, in an oval of pallid light, and a helmeted brown legionary smitten down, right across the bituminous foreground. "This picture, my children, muy linda e maravillosa," Father Roman would say to some of his flock, "which you behold here through the munificence of the wife of our Senor Administrador, has ...
— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad

... found their amusement in singular ways, and would have been hurt had any one attempted to usurp their self-appointed duties—and when I put in services for Sunday, the 22nd, it was recognized that we should march, and fight on the Sabbath. Not more anxiously did the legionary listen for tales of supernatural fires in the corn and of statues sweating blood than the regiments asked each other, 'Have you dug a mess yet? Has the padre put in services?' Two of us went down with colitis—possibly the Sumaikchah waters were not even ...
— The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad • Edward John Thompson



Words linked to "Legionary" :   French Republic, legion, France, soldier



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