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[broun-shurt]

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–noun (often initial capital letter

)

a Nazi.

2.	a Nazi storm trooper.

Origin:
1930–35; brown + shirt so called from the color of the shirt worn as part of the uniform

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Brown Shirt or brown·shirt (broun'shûrt')
n.

A Nazi, especially a storm trooper.
A racist, especially a violent, right-wing one.

[Translation of German Braunhemd : braun, brown + Hemd, shirt.]

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Brown Shirt

generic term for "Nazi, fascist," 1934, in ref. to the Ger. Sturmabteilung, Nazi militia founded 1921; called Brown Shirts in Eng. from 1922, in ref. to their uniforms.

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