| 单词 | black protestant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack Protestant black Protestant n. (also with capital initial in the first element) (a) (a descendant of) a Protestant settler in Ireland at the time of the Cromwellian Settlement of 1652 (cf. Cromwellian n.); (b) derogatory and offensive a staunch Irish Protestant, esp. one characterized as intolerant or bigoted; also used as a more general term of abuse for an Irish Protestant. ΚΠ 1829 A. M. Hall Sketches Irish Char. I. 139 Ould James Corish, though suspicted o' being a black Protestant (I ax pardon; but that was what they were called), was well counted by all his neighbours. 1899 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Some Experiences Irish R.M. (1901) i. 7 They were ‘Black Protestants’, all of them, in virtue of their descent from a godly soldier of Cromwell. 1958 Furrow 9 92 Catholics have always known the difference between the ‘decent’ and the ‘black’ Protestant. 1970 Irish University Rev. 1 93 A bloody villain of a land-grabber, and a black Protestant to boot, was trying to throw a lonely, helpless..widow-woman out on the side of the road to die. 1984 Field 6 Oct. 73/2 The original Townshend was one of these ‘Cromwellites’ or ‘Black Protestants’. 2007 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 3 Aug. 21 They call him a black Protestant and yell that such should not be allowed on to a GAA pitch. < as lemmas |
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