PMAa member of a legion, especially the French Foreign Legion 军团成员,〔尤指法国军队中的〕外籍军团成员
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legionnaire• We were learning what it was like to be legionnaires.• I went to see the formerlegionnaire at the pub in Paddington where he was working.• He had hired a lawyer in Warsaw, actually the same former captain of legionnaires with whom Minna had threatened Barish Mendl.• Beer followed pizza and we looked round the Romanamphitheatre which had been built by Roman legionnaires 1,800 years before.• But for today's legionnaires Franco is little more than a footnote.• She paid for the Regiment's presents each Christmas and presented them to the legionnaires.
Originlegionnaire
(1800-1900)Frenchlégionnaire, from légion; → LEGION1