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foreign legion

NOUN
  1. a military unit composed of foreign volunteers who serve the state

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  • Mr. Martinoty's solution is wretched excess: an immense library-cum-mad-science lab with a giant crucifix looming above, an older actor lip-synching Mr. Alagna's aged Faust, Mr. Alagna popping out of a space-age sphere in a gold T-shirt after the devilish deal, a huge chorus in a costume mashup that includes Enlightenment academics, Foreign Legionnaires, Second Empire soldiers, beauty contestants in bathing suits, peasant girls in Dutch bonnets, a humongous skeleton in a flurry of rainbow streamers, and carnival maskers part African-part Ensor. Less Is More for 'Faust'
  • In one of his famous cartoons, he shows soldiers of the French Foreign Legion marching endlessly through a desert expanse with two legionnaires in the foreground.
  • London attracts foreign legion London is becoming the main choice of destination for foreign workers.
  • This is one French foreign legion that is not up for the fight. The Sun
  • The former French foreign legionnaire was overtaking four cars when the Nissan turned right and collided with the bike.
  • When I first travelled to this extraordinary land more than 30 years ago, it was with the French Foreign Legion, who had just parachuted into the copper-mining town of Kolwezi to put down a rebellion.
  • Captain Jonathan Greening is ready to give Albion's foreign legion a crash course in English derbies before Sunday's clash with Villa. Express & Star
  • The long, grueling war caused the mutiny of the French Foreign Legion units whose mission was to retain Algeria as a French colony.
  • He has previous military experience, having served with the French Foreign Legion.
  • German special forces troops have adopted it, as have foreign legionnaires, Spanish riot police and Italian anti-terrorism units.
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