camp-followers

About ten feet in front of Sulu and Uhura was a junction where one of the smaller hallways crossed the wider one in which they stood, leading away toward what Sulu presumed to be barracks or semiprivate residences of those who in another era would have been termed camp-followers—not necessarily prostitutes, but that secondary army of merchants, entertainers and purveyors of alternate food sources that attaches itself to any military establishment.

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

About ten feet in front of Sulu and Uhura was a junction where one of the smaller hallways crossed the wider one in which they stood, leading away toward what Sulu presumed to be barracks or semiprivate residences of those who in another era would have been termed camp-followers—not necessarily prostitutes, but that secondary army of merchants, entertainers and purveyors of alternate food sources that attaches itself to any military establishment.

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

In the late nineteenth century, J. L. Krapf noted: South-East African languages have a tendency to forming separate families, or classes of nouns, which govern the whole grammatical edifice; therefore the noun has the precedence, and all the other parts of speech are, as it were, its dependents, or camp-followers.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

In the late nineteenth century, J. L. Krapf noted: South-East African languages have a tendency to forming separate families, or classes of nouns, which govern the whole grammatical edifice; therefore the noun has the precedence, and all the other parts of speech are, as it were, its dependents, or camp-followers.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

The ‘helping professions’ are in general camp-followers of the dominant culture, just like the clergy, and the psychiatrists.

What Makes Us Happy? 2009

The ‘helping professions’ are in general camp-followers of the dominant culture, just like the clergy, and the psychiatrists.

What Makes Us Happy? 2009

And then there are the camp-followers: raving far-right tinfoilers, some of whom believe that oil is continually produced in unlimited quantities at the earth's core, hackers, thieves and know-nothings, oil shills and dabblers.

Archive 2009-12-01 2009

It was a great meeting, full of generous and stimulating participants, whether authors, readers, camp-followers or a combination of all three.

June 2008 Maxine 2008

It was a great meeting, full of generous and stimulating participants, whether authors, readers, camp-followers or a combination of all three.

Crimefest 2008 resuscitated Maxine 2008

It was a great meeting, full of generous and stimulating participants, whether authors, readers, camp-followers or a combination of all three.

Crimefest 2008 resuscitated Maxine 2008