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Definition of Redshirts
1. redshirt [v] - See also: redshirt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Redshirts
Literary usage of Redshirts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1891)
"But, had he only known it, he might have found, dawdling about the harbour, a
little band of the picturesque redshirts for whom he had looked ..."
2. Authority in the Modern State by Harold Joseph Laski (1919)
"It was at the very nadir of his fortunes that Hildebrand made claim to the lordship
of the world. It was when Garibaldi and his redshirts were thundering at ..."
3. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"These clubs were called by the carpetbaggers "redshirts," as for economical
reasons they wore red flannel shirts instead of more costly uniforms. ..."
4. The Republican Tradition in Europe by Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher (1911)
"With his following of brawny redshirts, their heads covered with conical-shaped
hats decked with black waving plumes, ..."
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