"turn-coat" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1893, John William Book, Short Line to the Roman Catholic Church, page 30",
          "text": "You say you have no use for turn-coats, what use have you then for Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and Henry VIII? all turn-coats, because all were born Catholics.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Joseph Cottle, Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey",
          "text": "On a visit to some friends at Worcester, he had the piece with him; meaning I suppose, to afford them a little amusement, at Southey's expense, he being held in great reproach, even contempt, as a turn-coat.",
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        {
          "ref": "2015, Suzanne Robinson, Kay Dreyfus, Grainger the Modernist, page 24",
          "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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        "Alternative form of turncoat"
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  "word": "turn-coat"
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          "ref": "1893, John William Book, Short Line to the Roman Catholic Church, page 30",
          "text": "You say you have no use for turn-coats, what use have you then for Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and Henry VIII? all turn-coats, because all were born Catholics.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Joseph Cottle, Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey",
          "text": "On a visit to some friends at Worcester, he had the piece with him; meaning I suppose, to afford them a little amusement, at Southey's expense, he being held in great reproach, even contempt, as a turn-coat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2015, Suzanne Robinson, Kay Dreyfus, Grainger the Modernist, page 24",
          "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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        "Alternative form of turncoat"
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