Incidentally, did you know that the word 'campaign' is drawn from the French for countryside, campagne, which is taken from the Latin for field, campus. The best soldiers in the field were campiones, from which we get 'champions'. From there you also get 'camp' in both senses: first the army who pitched their tents, and then the women of ill-repute who were camp followers, plying certain wares. After a while, to be wearing too much make-up and having illicit sexual encounters was referred to as camp as well. Very Brighton.
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