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‖ Squadrone Now Hist.|skwaˈdrone|
Also 8 Sc. -ronie, -rony.
[a. It. squadrone (volante): cf. squadron n. 7.]
A Scottish political party in the early years of the 18th century.
1707–14Lockhart Papers (1817) I. 294 In the main the united Tories and Squadrone did not succeed so weel as they expected. 1708Caldwell Pap. (Maitland) 215 If y⊇ court be generous they'll at least procure for him y⊇ fines for a wrongous imprisonment that is due by the squadrony. 1800A. Carlyle Autob. 40 By good-luck for the clergy, there was another party distinction among them,..viz., that of Argathelian and Squadrone.
†b. As adj. Hovering between two parties.
c1720Warden in Wodrow's Corr. (1843) II. 538, I am squadronie in that matter, being sometime on one side and sometime on another. |