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brown⋅shirt

  [broun-shurt]
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–noun (often initial capital letter)
1. 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.  

  1. A Nazi, especially a storm trooper.

  2. A racist, especially a violent, right-wing one.


[Translation of German Braunhemd : braun, brown + Hemd, shirt.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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