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yellow badges

yellow badges is the plural of yellow badge.

Meaning of yellow badge

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

Questions about yellow badges

What is yellow badges the plural of?
Yellow badges is the plural of yellow badge.

Words near yellow badges in the dictionary

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

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