compagnie

American  

[kawn-pa-nyee] / kɔ̃ paˈnji /

noun

French.

• compagnies
  plural

1. company.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• compagnies
  plural

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Example Sentences

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compagnie compagnies

The precursors of the modern Mafia were the compagnie d'armi, small private armies that feudal overlords employed to enforce their authority.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not the fault of the compagnie that he is without a bed.

From The Husbands of Edith by George Barr McCutcheon

Now with his love, now in his coldè grave Alone withouten any compagnie.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

The compagnie cycliste, covering the advance of the march of the thirteenth corps, threw itself into Thiel at the moment when the advance guard of the division was attacked by superior forces.

From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by William Walton

The princess and her dames de compagnie wore the graceful native Servian costume.

From Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. by Andrew Archibald Paton

The number and composition of the compagnies d’ordonnance were changed more than once before the reign of Louis XIV.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

He now created the compagnies d’ordonnance, and endeavoured to organize the militia of the francs archers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

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