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Definition of Turncoats
1. turncoat [n] - See also: turncoat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turncoats
Literary usage of Turncoats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Léopold Delisle, Guizot (François) (1854)
"All nations curse traitors and turncoats, as they do wolves, thinking them only
fit to be hanged, and if they can catch them, condemn them to the gibbet, ..."
2. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Court of the First Empire by Claude-François Méneval (1910)
"Cadoudal was tolerated, but public honours rendered to these turncoats, who
carried arms against France, were the fruit of an unhallowed policy, ..."
3. Gathered in the Gloaming: Poems of Early and Later Years by Thomas Westwood (1885)
"... turncoats. AID a little black tadpole to another, That happened to be his
elder brother, " Pray, what strange creature is that I hear Croaking so loud? ..."
4. Poems My Children Love Best of All by Mary R. Bassett, Will Hammell (1917)
"turncoats Said a little black Tadpole to another, That happened to be his elder
brother, "Pray, what strange creature is that I hear Croaking so loud? ..."
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