Redshirt

English

Noun

Redshirt (plural Redshirts)

  1. Alternative form of Red Shirt
    • 1986, Joel Williamson, A Rage for Order, →ISBN:
      Like the leaders they opposed, they had participated in the "Redshirt" campaign of 1876 and 1877 that redeemed the state for home rule and founded the new establishment.
    • 2011, A Year on The Sauce, →ISBN, page 19:
      Families and supporters of the Redshirt protesters in Thailand handed in a letter to the London embassy yesterday calling for an end to the killings and suppression of pro-democracy campaigners.
    • 2013, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Istanbul, Rome and Jerusalem: Titans of the Holy Cities, →ISBN:
      In this process, known as the Risorgimento, Garibaldi led his Redshirt followers to decisive victories over the Spanish Bourbon and Austrian Habsburg dynasties that still ruled much of Italy.
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