| 单词 | green ribbon man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen ribbon man 1. A ribbon of green colour worn as the badge of the Levellers during the English Civil War (1642–8), and of the associated King's Head Club (founded 1675); frequently attributive in Green Ribbon Club (the later name of the King's Head Club), green ribbon man. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British political associations > [noun] > Green Ribbon Club Green Ribbon Club1649 society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British political associations > [noun] > Green Ribbon Club > adherent of green ribbon man1649 1649 Moderate Intelligencer No. 215. 2013 Neere 4000 men, most of whom were persons religious, and looked as if they had done service in Arms for the Parliament, they had green ribands as their cognisance. 1680 A. Allam Let. Wood 12 Nov. (Bodl. Wood F. 39) f. 35 Prat's sonn..hath listed himself in to the Green Ribbon Club. 1681 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 512 Sr. Southby was put aside, for being a green ribband man and saying that ‘the old king’ (Charles I) ‘died justly’, and speaking against the bishops and other things. 1722 O. Dykes Royal Marriage 111 This Proverb..spoil'd all the Politicks of the Green-Ribbon-Club. 1885 Dict. National Biogr. II. 284/1 At his execution it came out that he [sc. John Ayloffe]..had been ‘a green-ribbon man’. 1997 Hist. Today (Nexis) 1 Mar. 39 It ended opposite the Green Ribbon Club's meeting place at Temple Bar, where there was a great bonfire, cries of ‘No Popery’ and riotous scenes. < as lemmas |
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