Blackshirt

/ ˈblækˌʃɜːt /

noun

1. (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II

Example Sentences

Famed conductor Arturo Toscanini refused to play the fascist party anthem in the theater or elsewhere, earning him a beating from Mussolini’s Blackshirts.

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Mussolini’s roving bands of Blackshirts, “bursting with appetites,” wielded clubs with precision, “bashing both sides of the mouth, both mandibular joints, in order to fracture the jaws.”

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Rule Britannia has had its place - but so have Bovril, balls, Blackshirts and a bombastic celebration of the Bard.

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Nebraska will wear black alternate jerseys with a skull and crossbones on the shoulder in a nod to the program’s “Blackshirt” defense tradition.

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Pietro Prina, or so the story goes, used to play clarinet in Piedmont until one night a gang of Blackshirts made a request that he couldn’t safely decline, and it seemed like time to go.

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