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		|  blackshirt 
 
 black·shirt 7  [blackshirt balckshirts] BrE [ˈblækʃɜːt]  NAmE [ˈblækʃɜːrt]   (also  Blackshirt) noun
 a member of a  ↑fascist  organization, especially in the 1920s and 30s
 
 Word Origin:
 1920s: so named because of the colour of the Italian Fascist uniform.
 
 Culture:
 Blackshirt was the name people gave to any member of the British Union of Fascists, a political party started by Oswald  Mosley  in  1932. Members wore black uniforms, like the members of other Fascist parties in Europe. In  1936, after a lot of disturbances in Jewish areas of London, the wearing of uniforms by political groups was made illegal under a new Public Order Act.
 
 
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