Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a military unit composed of foreign volunteers who serve the state
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Examples
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In the days of old Earth, I am told, there was an organization called the Foreign Legion, which men of questionable backgrounds could join in hopes of starting new lives for themselves.
Star Trek® New Frontier Peter David 1997
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In the days of old Earth, I am told, there was an organization called the Foreign Legion, which men of questionable backgrounds could join in hopes of starting new lives for themselves.
Star Trek® New Frontier Peter David 1997
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In the days of old Earth, I am told, there was an organization called the Foreign Legion, which men of questionable backgrounds could join in hopes of starting new lives for themselves.
Star Trek® New Frontier Peter David 1997
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In the days of old Earth, I am told, there was an organization called the Foreign Legion, which men of questionable backgrounds could join in hopes of starting new lives for themselves.
Star Trek® New Frontier Peter David 1997
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In the days of old Earth, I am told, there was an organization called the Foreign Legion, which men of questionable backgrounds could join in hopes of starting new lives for themselves.
Star Trek® New Frontier Peter David 1997
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Or she wanted to travel to the Great Wall of China or join the Foreign Legion; she was unimpressed to discover she was expected to be a girl, and especially a girl in the 50s in rural America, where you became a hairdresser or a housewife, and the boys went to Vietnam or became policemen.
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A New York native, Stern got his start in Hollywood in the '50s writing film screenplays, including Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, The Jazz Singer and the Jack Lemmon film Three for the Show.
Leonard Stern, Honeymooners and Get Smart Writer, Dies at 88 2011
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A New York native, Stern got his start in Hollywood in the '50s writing film screenplays, including Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, The Jazz Singer and the Jack Lemmon film Three for the Show.
Leonard Stern, Honeymooners and Get Smart Writer, Dies at 88 2011
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After writing for Dinah Shore, he came to the attention of Abbott and Costello, who hired him to write their 1950 film "Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion."
Classic TV Writer Helped Invent 'Mad Libs' Stephen Miller 2011
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Short of joining the Foreign Legion, it seemed like the perfect summer adventure.
Buffalo Bob and the Honey Dipper Michael Gillan Maxwell 2011
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