Orangeman
Americannoun
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Orangemen
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a member of a secret society formed in the north of Ireland in 1795, having as its object the maintenance and political ascendancy of Protestantism.
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a Protestant of Northern Ireland.
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Origin of Orangeman
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A man of many contradictions, Trimble was the opera buff who adored Elvis Presley, the diehard Protestant "Orangeman" turned consensus politician, a stiff, sometimes bad-tempered public figure who could be warm and witty in private.
From Reuters ● Jul. 25, 2022
The Orangeman is a Hoya, and if that’s the case, what in the world makes sense anymore?
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2018
A second leading Orangeman has backed calls to lift a ban on members of the Order attending Mass in Catholic churches.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2016
John the Orangeman was just a man who sold fruit outside Harvard Stadium whom students came to see as a harbinger of victory.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2015
If I were to ask Scotland Yard if Chappeldale had gone over to the Bolshevists, or if Waytensee had become an Orangeman, they would send a man here, his pockets bulging with note-books.
From John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall by Herbert George Jenkins
The Orangemen outscored Boston College 14-4 from the foul line.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2022
She said she and her family were "disgusted" and "insulted" by the decision by Orangemen to give Tweed a guard of honour at his funeral.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2021
He recruited Delaware players for a touch football team named the Orangemen, in honor of Syracuse University, where he attended law school.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2020
And speaking of Melo, he gave the Orangemen a pep talk before the game.
From Golf Digest ● Nov. 7, 2019
The boys shook one another’s hands, paddled over to the Syracuse boat, collected trophy shirts off the backs of the defeated Orangemen and shook their hands, and then rowed leisurely back to their shell house.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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