Brown Shirt
Britishnoun
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(in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
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a member of any fascist party or group
Example Sentences
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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
“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
In another tweet, Hill described the FBI as the "Brown Shirt enforcers" of the DNC.
From Salon
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