legion
/ˈli.d͡ʒən/ nom C2En français : légion
- The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
- A combined arms major military unit featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery, including historical units such as the British Legion, and present-day units such as the Spanish Legion and the French Foreign Legion.
- A large military or semi-military unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.
- A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion.
- A large number of people; a multitude. · Their complicated affairs are managed by a legion of accountants.
- A great number.
- A group of orders inferior to a class; in scientific classification, a term occasionally used to express an assemblage of objects intermediate between an order and a class.
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He was dressed in a blue frock-coat, buttoned up to the chin, and wore at his button-hole the rosette of an officer of the Legion of Honor.
In the meanwhile” (the king here detached the cross of the Legion of Honor which he usually wore over his blue coat, near the cross of St.
“In a blue frock-coat, buttoned up close, decorated with the Legion of Honor.”
“Dark complexion; hair, eyebrows, and whiskers black; blue frock-coat, buttoned up to the chin; rosette of an officer of the Legion of Honor in his button-hole; a hat with wide brim, and a cane.”
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