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yellow badge

yellow badge noun: a cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public, especially in Nazi-controlled states during the 1930s and 1940s.

Noun

yellow badge (plural yellow badges)

  1. (countable, historical) A cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public, especially in Nazi-controlled states during the 1930s and 1940s.
    • He might make us, like the Jews, wear yellow badges […]1663, Giles Oldisworth, The Stone Rolled Away, and Life More Abundant: An Apologie Urging Self-denyal, New-Obedience, Faith, and Thankfulneſſe, London: Thomas Ratcliffe, page 425

Synonyms of yellow badge

Forms of yellow badge

pluralyellow badges

Questions about yellow badge

What does yellow badge mean?
Yellow badge means a cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public, especially in Nazi-controlled states during the 1930s and 1940s.
What part of speech is yellow badge?
Yellow badge is a noun.
What is the plural of yellow badge?
The plural of yellow badge is yellow badges.

Words near yellow badge in the dictionary

  1. yellow atrophy
  2. yellow baboon
  3. yellow baboons
  4. yellow back
  5. yellow backs
  6. yellow badge
  7. yellow badges
  8. yellow bark
  9. yellow bean
  10. yellow beans
  11. yellow bear

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