| 单词 | honoured society |
| 释义 | > as lemmasHonoured Society Honoured Society n. (also with lower-case initials) [after Italian onorata società (1888 or earlier), so called with allusion to the organization's code of honour] (usually with the) (a name for) the Camorra (camorra n. 2); (in later use also more generally) any of various organized crime syndicates originating in southern Italy; the Mafia. ΚΠ 1904 S. Fitzgerald Naples iv. 69 The full meaning of the word ‘Camorra’ (or ‘Honoured Society’, as the Camorristi call it) is probably known only by the Neapolitans themselves. 1959 E. J. Hobsbawm Primitive Rebels (1963) iii. 49 The so-called Honoured Society ('ndranghita, fibbia) has long been known to one and all in Southern Calabria. 1972 New York 7 Aug. 7/1 The main responsibility of the..gang to the honored society, however, is to bring in the Mafia recruits. 2006 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 8 Feb. 9 The Honoured Society is a worldwide Calabrian gang with a major presence in Australia, specialising in marijuana, protection rackets and fraud. < as lemmas |
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