compagnie
Americannoun
plural
compagniesExample Sentences
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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
I surmised that Francezka was not likely to choose for her dame de compagnie one able or desirous to cross her.
From Francezka by Seawell, Molly Elliot
It was as if they thought her my dame de compagnie.
From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
Swift est Rabelais dans son bon sens, et vivant en bonne compagnie.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George
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 Lever, Charles James
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