Definition of "legionnaires" []

• Plural form of legionnaire. (noun)

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• ":: The condition is called legionnaires 'disease because it was first identified after a mass outbreak at a hotel hosting a convention of the American Legion organisation."
• "This was an event during the reign of Licinius when forty legionnaires who had become Christian were ordered exposed on the ice of a frozen lake."
• "After unglamorous stories of decay at the Playboy mansion – the bug that causes legionnaires' disease was found in the mansion's hot tub in April 2011 – Hefner will hope the club will re-capture something of the glamour of its 60s heyday when stars such as Julie Christie, Rudolf Nureyev and Woody Allen attended an opening in 1966."