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foreign legion definition

foreign legion

  1. a military force composed mainly of volunteers from foreign countries
  2. such a French force, orig. based in N Africa

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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