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View synonyms for free companion

free companion

noun

  1. a member of a band of mercenary soldiers during the Middle Ages.


free companion

noun

  1. (in medieval Europe) a member of a company of mercenary soldiers


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Word History and Origins

Origin of free companion1

First recorded in 1810–20

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Example Sentences

I can call to mind the day when you were as roaring a blade as ever called himself a free companion.

Brace your belt, Watkins, man, and swing your shoulders as a free companion should.

To gain it the wife must become the free companion of her husband.

If you kill a Free Companion without a contract you go to court-martial.

Here, indeed, is your contrast—the free companion expounding the dignity of womanhood to the imprisoned mothers!

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