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1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 425:
Suddenly, [...] he saw all this as romantic — the last legionary, his aloneness, the lost cause really lost — and instinctively he pulled in his paunch, stroked down his hair to cover the naked part of the scalp, and wiped the sweat off his cheeks.
A person who is neither a citizen nor colonial/imperial subject of the state whose military they join.
Unto whom (what is deplorable in men and Christians) too many applying themselves, betwixt jest and earnest, betray the cause of truth, and insensibly make up the legionary body of error.
