French Foreign Legionnoun
uk/ˌfrentʃ fɒr.ən ˈliː.dʒən/us/ˌfrentʃ fɔːr.ən ˈliː.dʒən/also Foreign Legiona force of foreign soldiers in the French army
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
The armed forces generally
- AWOL
- camouflage
- challenge
- civilian
- deploy
- march
- martial
- military
- mission
- mod
- paramilitary
- psych ops
- quick march! idiom
- recce
- regular
- sealed orders
- soldiering
- the armed forces
- the military-industrial complex
- the National Guard
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Examples from literature
- But—that something in human beings which is unaccountable, when they are well bred, made him join the French Foreign Legion immediately war broke out, and behave with great gallantry.