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Phalangist

British  
/ fəˈlændʒɪst /

noun

    1. a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain

    2. ( as modifier )

      Phalangist leaders

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The remaining 15 he spent in Beirut, in a hotel suite, in the care of Israel's Christian Phalangist allies.

From The Guardian May 1, 2010

This number could also be considerably increased, though at the moment many Christian families are sending their teen-age sons to Cyprus to hide them from Phalangist recruiting gangs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Phalangist guides directed Israeli armor through the streets of East Beirut, not far from the capital's so-called Green Line dividing the Christian and Muslim sectors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Christian leaders, notably Phalangist Patriarch Pierre Gemayel and former President Camille Chamoun, are fiercely resisting that course.

From Time Magazine Archive

The burrow of the Phalangist is surmounted by a voluminous rubbish-dump, the materials of which are piled in the form of a cylinder as long as the finger.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard

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