vivandiere

She's now their collective daughter, or "vivandiere" - a woman who hangs out with a regiment serving as their mascot but also as a nurse, confidante and cook.

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Moscow, and when they caught sight of its burned ruins no one swore to be avenged on the French, but they thought about their next pay, their next quarters, of Matreshka the vivandiere, and like matters.

War and Peace 2003

Mary, a vivandiere, has been found and educated by a French sergeant, named Sulpice, and therefore belongs in a sense to his regiment, which is on a campaign in Italy.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

Africa, of her desire to be a nurse, he had pieced together an effigy of the combined traits of a Hottentot and a vivandiere.

On the Firing Line Hamilton Brock Fuller 1905

It had made her feel that she had some share in his life; that, in a way, she had helped him on the march, the vivandiere who carried the water-bag which would give him drink when parched, battle-worn, or wounded.

You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 3. Gilbert Parker 1897

It had made her feel that she had some share in his life; that, in a way, she had helped him on the march, the vivandiere who carried the water-bag which would give him drink when parched, battle-worn, or wounded.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

It had made her feel that she had some share in his life; that, in a way, she had helped him on the march, the vivandiere who carried the water-bag which would give him drink when parched, battle-worn, or wounded.

You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

She would have "slanged" the Emperor himself with the self-same coolness, and the Army had given her a passport of immunity so wide that it would have fared ill with anyone who had ever attempted to bring the vivandiere to book for her uttermost mischief.

Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

He bowed to her with the old grace of manner that had so amused and amazed the little vivandiere.

Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

The few impressive, vivid words of the young vivandiere had painted before him like a picture the horrors of mutiny and its hopelessness; rather than that, through him, these should befall the men who had become his brethren-in-arms, he felt ready to let the

Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873