reds
Meanings
noun
- plural of red
noun
- plural of Red
name
- Synonym of Communist Party in various contexts.
- Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly red, particularly
- The chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore red.
- Cincinnati Reds.
- Liverpool FC.
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In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of Latin russātī (“Reddish-Brown-Clads”) or factio russata (“the reddish-brown-clad faction”) and Byzantine Greek Ῥούσιοι (Rhoúsioi, “Reds”).
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