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brown⋅shirt

[broun-shurt]
–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.]
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