| 单词 | Molly Maguire |
| 释义 | Molly Maguire /meuh gwuyeur"/ 1. Irish Hist. a member of a secret terrorist society organized in Ireland in 1843 to prevent evictions by the government: so called because the members disguised themselves as women. 2. U.S. Hist. a member of a former secret association, organized about 1865, that terrorized the mine operators' agents in an effort to get relief from oppressive conditions in the anthracite coal-mining regions of Pennsylvania: ceased to function about 1877. [1865-70, Amer.] |
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