Yes, the word 'freelance' did originally refer to a mercenary warrior
Social media users claimed that the word "freelance" comes from a term for a mercenary warrior. "A literal free lance," one X ...
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Yes, the word 'freelance' did originally refer to a mercenary warrior
A literal free lance. I am a knight ... "when [the word] freelance first came into English in the early 1800s, it was used to refer to a medieval mercenary who would fight for whichever nation ...