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bloody shirt
noun
- a bloodstained shirt used to incite a mob to vengeance.
- any symbol used for this purpose.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bloody shirt1
First recorded in 1870–75
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Example Sentences
He was the imbecile who stopped in Cincinnati and mailed you the bloody shirt to throw you off the scent.
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I don't know but I prefer the 'waving of the bloody shirt' to this flaunting of the olive-branch.
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Therewithal she pulled out a bloody doublet and a bloody shirt, that were be-bled with old blood.
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Yet, as the sequel proved, it was long after Cleveland's day before the bloody shirt was laid finally to rest.
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Yet the bloody shirt lingered long as a troublemaker, and was invoked by both parties.
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