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foreign legion

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foreign legion
n.
A unit of a nation's army consisting primarily of foreign volunteers, often tasked with fighting wars in colonies.
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Noun1.foreign legionforeign legion - a military unit composed of foreign volunteers who serve the state
legion - a large military unit; "the French Foreign Legion"
French Foreign Legion - a former foreign legion in the French army that was used for military duties outside of France


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Captain Armand Jacot of the Foreign Legion sat upon an outspread saddle blanket at the foot of a stunted palm tree.
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This was Commandant O'Brien, of the French Foreign Legion.
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A few of his ivory teeth deserted, though the keenest observers of human life were unable to discover to what body they had hitherto belonged, whether to a foreign legion or whether they were indigenous, vegetable or animal; whether age had pulled them from the chevalier's mouth, or whether they were left forgotten in the drawer of his dressing-table.
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