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camp follower

NOUN
temporary supporter
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When Sheree refuses to let him live on the air base as "a sort of male camp follower," he decides to aloha the boom.

From Time Magazine Archive

His most distinguished camp follower, Major General Yadunath Singh, onetime military secretary to Indian President Rajendra Prasad, mounted a bicycle and pedaled back into the gullies to dicker personally with dacoit leaders.

From Time Magazine Archive

True to historical accuracy, Mrs. Daigle became a camp follower, cooking, washing clothes and keeping the tent clean.

From Time Magazine Archive

Richard Joseph Cardinal Gushing, the third Archbishop of Boston, was far from a clerical camp follower of the Kennedys.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few sellswords turned to watch them pass, and a camp follower sniggered, but no one moved to interfere.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin