peace marchern.
/ˈpiːs ˌmɑːtʃə/, U.S. /ˈpis ˌmɑrtʃər/ A person who takes part in a peace march.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > militant person > protester or demonstrator > types of protester or demonstrator
counterprotester1863
hunger-marcher1908
peace marcher1918
sit-downer1936
sit-inner1936
protest marcher1947
sitter1960
freedom rider1961
sit-in1961
sitter-in1961
live-in1964
protest singer1966
1918 Evening Reporter (Lebanon, Pa.) 24 Oct. 1/3 The machine guns were mounted about the city and the military police opened fire upon the peace marchers.
1950 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 3 Aug. 14/4 Two thousand left-wing ‘peace’ marchers, banned from staging a union square rally, battled 1,000 police late Wednesday.
1958 Times 22 Mar. 7/5 Mr. Allaun..hopes that the numbers of his peace marchers protesting against nuclear weapons will be as great as ‘the hunger marchers of the 1930s’.
1961 J. Kerouac Let. 25 May in Sel. Lett. 1957–69 (1999) 291 As to the Peace Marchers, I think they should now endeavor to get permission from the Soviet Government to march in Russia in the name of the same peace plea.
1972 J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) vi. 77 Lieutenant Hilliard..was a cool old head and wouldn't get into a flap over fifteen peace marchers.
2003 Toronto Star (Nexis) 4 Apr. a27 Those with eyes can see that neither the peace marchers, nor the war supporters want war.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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