| 单词 | free companion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree companion free companion n. historical a member of a free company; = freelance n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > mercenary wagerc1420 knight wager1513 mercenary1523 lance-knight1530 suddart1542 hireling1547 adventurer1548 venturer1572 lansquenet1577 warmonger1590 mercenarian1598 passe-volant1617 provantman1659 soldier of fortune1661 privateer1676 routier1683 bravo1761 stipendiary1768 free companion1804 freelance1819 free-rider1821 freelancer1854 merchant of death1934 merc1967 1804 T. Johnes tr. J. Froissart Chron. III. cxviii. 531 A journey to Paris, to the king and the dukes of Berry and Burgundy,..to explain what he had done in regard to these free companions. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. viii. 151 A knight who rode near him, the leader of a band of free companions, or Condottieri, that is, of mercenaries belonging to no particular nation, but attached for the time to any prince by whom they were paid. 1891 A. Conan Doyle in Cornhill Mag. Oct. 416 His whole life was spent in raids..upon the Brabanters, late-comers, flayers, free companions [etc.]. 1939 Speculum 14 427 We find Coucy now opposing, and then in alliance with the famous English free-companion, Sir John Hawkwood. 1997 J. C. Bradford Mil. & Confl. between Cultures 64 With the truce, these forces assumed an independent existence as ‘free companions’, held together by a blend of economic and psychological factors. < as lemmas |
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