swastica

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Noun[edit]

swastica (plural swasticas)

  1. Obsolete form of swastika.
    • 1892, Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, page 354:
      "With respect to the use of the swastica," wrote Dr. Graves, "as a Christian emblem, a controversy was raised […]
    • 1895, Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund, page 85:
      […] in some of the Andhra gold coins the place of the figure of the sun was taken by the Swastica; […]
    • 1931, Compulsory Unemployment Insurance, page 247:
      One scene in a city in southern Germany can never be forgotten: a great parade of thousands of Communists on one side of the city, while in another section came the Fascists with brown shirts, swasticas, the Fascist salute.
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