"turn-coat" meaning in All languages combined

See turn-coat on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: turn-coats [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} turn-coat (plural turn-coats)
  1. Alternative form of turncoat Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: turncoat
    Sense id: en-turn-coat-en-noun-gZQJqDc0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Indeed, he gave a lucid self-diagnosis of these competing tendencies when referring to the irony of his defection from Britain at the beginning of the First World War, describing himself as 'a coward, a turn-coat, whose lifework was to celebrate in music beauty-born-of-bravery!'",
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