Ribbonism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. 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

Ribbonism

Etymology

From ribbon + -ism, from the green badge they wore.

Related words

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