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free company
noun
- a band of free companions.
free company
noun
- European history a band of mercenary soldiers during the Middle Ages
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Word History and Origins
Origin of free company1
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Example Sentences
The count had been encamped with his free company for the last five days in the Casa Grande of Moctecuhzoma.
The little band advanced to the west, in the direction of which the free company had marched in pursuit of the Apaches.
Before long the free company, with the captain at its head, disappeared in the Del Norte.
Many of them made objection to this, saying that one had no reason to take more risk than another in this free company.
He was appointed governor of Inverness, with a free company of Highlanders.
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