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Orangeman

noun
(pl. orangemen)
1.
A member of a society founded in Ireland in 1795 to uphold Protestantism and the British sovereign.





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"Orangeman" Quotes from Famous Books



... it be otherwise? What can he and I have in sympathy with one another? He has been brought up with all an Orangeman's hatred for a Papist. Now that he is in high office, he can abandon the display of the feeling,—perhaps the feeling itself as regards the country at large. He knows that it doesn't become a Lord Lieutenant to be Orange. But how can ...
— The Prime Minister • Anthony Trollope
... County Durham, Orangeman from the town of Lindsay, editor, soldier, adventurer, school teacher who once taught English and who never could make a speech, though he talked in public—what was there about him up till 1914 to make any nation wonder? The first time I saw Hughes, in 1910, a man whose office he had just ...
— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino
... mother chose this particular day to take me to see our relatives, except it was the inveterate longing which her early surroundings and training had given her to assist at the "batin' of an Orangeman," or why I should have been the chosen one of the family to come, unless it was that she thought I was the one most after her own heart in her warlike propensities. However this may have been, there we were in the first-floor front room of my Uncle Hughey's. ...
— The Life Story of an Old Rebel • John Denvir


Words linked to "Orangeman" :   Association of Orangemen, Orange Order, protestant


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