Ribbonism
Meanings
name
- A 19th-century popular movement of Catholics in Ireland, active against landlords and their agents, and opposed to the ideology of the Protestant Orange Order.
Word forms
Etymology
From ribbon + -ism, from the green badge they wore.
Related words
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