red-shirt

English

Noun

red-shirt (plural red-shirts)

1. Alternative form of Red Shirt (“follower of Garibaldi”)
   • 1889, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi, page 190:

     The suspension of hostilities, and the retreat of the Bourbon forces towards the sea, again inspired the people with confidence and daring; so much so, that we were obliged to station red-shirts at the advanced posts, to prevent the collisions between the Sicilians and the Bourbon troops which would have ensued from the intense hatred of the former for the latter.

   • 2001, John Woodhouse, Gabriele D'Annunzio: Defiant Archangel, →ISBN, page Z-83:

     THE Italian brigade in the Argonne, under the leadership of Peppino Garibaldi, four years junior to D'Annunzio and grandson of the great hero, had fought bravely but in vain against the superior forces of their German opponents. Five hundred of the original 2,000 red-shirts had been killed, wounded, or lost in the fighting; the depleted force was disbanded on 5 March 1915.'

   • 2005, Pieter M. Judson, Marsha L. Rozenblit, Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe, →ISBN, page 19:

     Whether it was the valiant defense of Warsaw by the doomed Jewish Corps in 1794 under the command of the legendary Berek Joselewicz or the enthusiasm of the Jewish volunteers who Hocked to the banner during the German Wars of Liberation in the struggle against Napoleon; the loyal service of Jewish National Guardsmen and soldiers (purportedly "20,000" in number) to the Magyar cause in 1848 and 1849 (explicitly acknowledged in the prefatory remarks to the law emancipating Jews during the waning days of Kossuth's revolution); or the Jewish insurgents who joined Garibaldis red-shirts in 1860, the valor and often the disproportionate participation of Jewish men at arms were to be repeatedly invoked to demonstrate that Jews were no stepsons of the nation, but deserved to be emancipated and regarded as genuine Pole and Germans, Hungarians and Italians.

2. Alternative form of Red Shirt (“member of the UDD”)
   • 2012, P. Thomas, P. Lee, Global and Local Televangelism, →ISBN:

     A concrete indicator is the rapid growth of the dissenting 'red-shirt' grassroot people who ensured the victory of the Pheu Thai Party over the conservative yellow-shirt group.