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Primrose League

Prim"rose` League\ (Eng. Politics) A league of both sexes among the Conservatives, founded in 1883. So called because primrose was (erroneously, it is said) taken to be the favorite flower of the Conservative statesman Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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