Brewer's: Free Lances

Roving companies of knights, etc., who wandered from place to place, after the Crusades, selling their services to anyone who would pay for them. In Italy they were termed Condottieri.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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