a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion)
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'Sometimes the girl does not want to give her teeth back,' a legionnaire told me in Papeete.
Dukakis, an Army veteran, wore a Legion convention medal on his lapel and a pin commemorating soldiers missing in action _ but did not wear a legionnaire's cap _ during a speech that was interrupted repeatedly by applause.
A legionnaire is a soldier first," he said.
But a modern-day legionnaire is still likely to see action in France's far-flung former possessions.