engagés

Noun

engagé (plural engagés)

1. (historical) Someone serving under a contract of engagement.
   • In 1705, "un nommé Laurain" having been up the Missouri River, there met native groups who had knowledge of the Spaniards, and in 1706 two Canadiens had spent two years status, like François-Marie Perrot, who began as a lowly engagé for the Jesuits and over the years became an influential explorer...1974, Preston Holder, The Hoe and the Horse on the Plains: A Study of Cultural Development, →ISBN

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