compagnie
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compagnies
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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
The waiter delayed in serving, as he said the company hadn’t yet arrived, but Haydn told him to bring it up at once, remarking, as he patted complacently his paunch, “I am de compagnie myself.”
From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Charles James Lever
If Lady Vivian's dame de compagnie should prove to be Madeleine, as it may be, there is no certainty that she will yield to his persuasions and return to us.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
I surmised that Francezka was not likely to choose for her dame de compagnie one able or desirous to cross her.
From Francezka by Molly Elliot Seawell
Madame d’Albret made no remark, except that she should be careful how she ever engaged a demoiselle de compagnie again.
From Valerie by Frederick Marryat
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
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
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