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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Military veterans often receive an award (such as induction into the Legion of Honor) for sufferingan injury (or lesion). Uncommon, but I would guess that ‘’egion’ and ‘lesion’ get mixed up in other contexts too. Examples:
Ho received the decoration of the Lesion of Honor In 1853. res=F10E16F6345B1A738DDDA90994DC405B8385F0D3
Louis-Philippe conferred upon him the order of the Lesion of Honor.
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The conqueror decorated the poet with the cross of the Lesion of Honor, and the poet wreathed the conqueror with the laurel of his song. ...
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Briefs on the Law of Insurance…Supreme Council Lesion of Honor v. Palmer, 107 Mo. App. 167, 80 SW 699—iv. 3814.
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We had those in high school but we called them hickeys.
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