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Definition of Flag waving
1. Noun. An appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions.
Generic synonyms: Demagoguery, Demagogy
Derivative terms: Jingoist, Jingoistic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flag Waving
Literary usage of Flag waving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1864)
"... Broadway to the Jersey City Ferry, to be numbered by dozens or by scores :
every building seemed like " Captains of Fifties," flag over flag waving. ..."
2. Letters of Captain Geo. Hamilton Perkins, U.S.N. by George Hamilton Perkins, George Eugene Belknap (1908)
"Admiral's flagship, the Hartford, a mass of invulnerability with the old flag
waving over her. "You are doubtless aware that it was confidently predicted by ..."
3. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1914)
"bara Fritchie kept her flag waving from her window while the town was held by
General Lee's troops. This evidence, when supplemented by Barbara Fritchie's ..."
4. Origin and History of the American Flag and of the Naval and Yacht-club by George Henry Preble, Charles Edward Asnis (1917)
"... would have seen it; and as for General Jackson, he did not pass over the
bridge, but up another street. If there was anything like flag-waving at Mrs. ..."
5. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals, who Have Been Condemned and Executed (1873)
"... his Flag, waving his Flag once, for every Man that he saw come on Shore ; but
if four or more came on Shore, then to keep the flag waving continually, ..."
6. Romances and Narratives by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"... which was on the opposite shore, and overlooked the whole island, and ordered
him to make signals with his flag, waving his flag once for every man that ..."
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