Brown Shirt

noun

1. (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper

2. a member of any fascist party or group

Example Sentences

Clad in his chocolate brown shirt and black trousers, school badge pinned neatly, Ahnaf was chatting with a friend under a canopy on the playground of the sprawling 12-acre campus of Milestone School and College, in the busy Uttara neighbourhood.

From BBC

Berger, who is wearing a brown shirt, is one of them.

From Seattle Times

She stood and looked around for a minute, and I held my breath in the shadow behind the barn, and was glad I was wearing a brown shirt and muddy jeans.

From Literature

“It was a beautiful experience. I was very happy to see so many people get together,” said Salvador Gaitan, who was wearing a traditional brown shirt with woven patterns.

From Los Angeles Times

The three witnesses have also demonstrated support for numerous conspiracy theories regarding January 6 and Covid-19, with Hill tweeting at various times that the insurrection was "a setup" and that the FBI are "the brown shirt enforcers" of the Democratic Party, and O'Boyle comparing Covid vaccines to the actions of the Reserve Police Battalion 101, a Nazi police force.

From Salon