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- noun Plural form of
legionnaire .
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Examples
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:: The condition is called legionnaires 'disease because it was first identified after a mass outbreak at a hotel hosting a convention of the American Legion organisation.
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This was an event during the reign of Licinius when forty legionnaires who had become Christian were ordered exposed on the ice of a frozen lake.
March 10th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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The sewer, which Jewish rebels are thought to have used to flee the Roman legionnaires who razed Jerusalem and its Temple in A.D. 70, is set to open to the public later this summer.
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Ordinary Americans know little of what our legionnaires do in war.
Michael Vlahos: Who Then Shall Mourn Our Drones? Michael Vlahos 2011
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The sewer, which Jewish rebels are thought to have used to flee the Roman legionnaires who razed Jerusalem and its Temple in A.D. 70, is set to open to the public later this summer.
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Ordinary Americans know little of what our legionnaires do in war.
Michael Vlahos: Who Then Shall Mourn Our Drones? Michael Vlahos 2011
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Two British holidaymakers have died after contracting legionnaires' disease while on holiday in Spain.
Two British pensioners on Spanish holiday die of legionnaires' disease 2012
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After unglamorous stories of decay at the Playboy mansion – the bug that causes legionnaires' disease was found in the mansion's hot tub in April 2011 – Hefner will hope the club will re-capture something of the glamour of its 60s heyday when stars such as Julie Christie, Rudolf Nureyev and Woody Allen attended an opening in 1966.
Playboy club reopening to attract protests against Hugh Hefner 2011
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After unglamorous stories of decay at the Playboy mansion – the bug that causes legionnaires' disease was found in the mansion's hot tub in April 2011 – Hefner will hope the club will re-capture something of the glamour of its 60s heyday when stars such as Julie Christie, Rudolf Nureyev and Woody Allen attended an opening in 1966.
Playboy club reopening to attract protests against Hugh Hefner 2011
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“With a fanfare of music, loud cheering, gaudy uniforms of legionnaires, and gaily dressed femininity, the Winter League got going last Sunday,” the Eagle reported on October 23.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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