"red-shirt" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: red-shirts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} red-shirt (plural red-shirts)
  1. Alternative form of Red Shirt (“follower of Garibaldi”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Red Shirt (extra: follower of Garibaldi)
    Sense id: en-red-shirt-en-noun-egNzVP-r Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 32
  2. Alternative form of Red Shirt (“member of the UDD”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Red Shirt (extra: member of the UDD)
    Sense id: en-red-shirt-en-noun-mHGra8ON

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Whether it was the valiant defense of Warsaw by the doomed Jewish Corps in 1794 under the command of the legendary Berek Joselewicz or the enthusiasm of the Jewish volunteers who Hocked to the banner during the German Wars of Liberation in the struggle against Napoleon; the loyal service of Jewish National Guardsmen and soldiers (purportedly \"20,000\" in number) to the Magyar cause in 1848 and 1849 (explicitly acknowledged in the prefatory remarks to the law emancipating Jews during the waning days of Kossuth's revolution); or the Jewish insurgents who joined Garibaldis red-shirts in 1860, the valor and often the disproportionate participation of Jewish men at arms were to be repeatedly invoked to demonstrate that Jews were no stepsons of the nation, but deserved to be emancipated and regarded as genuine Pole and Germans, Hungarians and Italians.",
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