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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Routiers

Adventurers who made war a trade and let themselves out to anyone who would pay them. So called because they were always on the route or moving from place to place. (Twelfth century.)

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