Condottiere [noun]
Definition of Condottiere:
hired soldier
Opposite/Antonyms of Condottiere:
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Sentence/Example of Condottiere:
Meeting with the band of Oldrado Sampuynano, the Condottiere, she enlisted under his banner.
He's a species of condottiere; we can buy his allegiance with his service: and we must forego the sentimental objection.
But he was really little more than a condottiere, and his orthodoxy was suspect.
Seeing that the indignation of her mistress merely amused the condottiere the dwarf took a cajoling tone.
Henry of Navarre shall in reality be nothing but your condottiere, and I will not be exigeante.
The bad faith of the condottiere Paolo Vitelli (beheaded at Florence in 1499) had deeply impressed him.
“A very useful doctrine of war-finance, as many a Condottiere has found,” said Bernardo Rucellai, drily.
This was what the stiffnecked Condottiere was now doing as fast as his best enemies could have wished.
Observing its entire failure, the experienced condottiere at once resorted to another form of attack.
He may have been an adventurer and a condottiere, but France owes to him Fontenoy, that brilliant page of her history.