Etymology

Ribbonism

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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The story

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

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