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Whiteboys

[ hwahyt-boiz, wahyt- ]

noun

(used with a singular verb)
  1. a secret agrarian peasant organization, active in Ireland during the early 1760s, whose members wore white shirts for recognition on their night raids to destroy crops, barns, and other property in redressing grievances against landlords and protesting the paying of tithes.


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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

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His mother had joked that he might live to see the day that he could tell a white man what to do, and 鈥渘ow I鈥檝e got two. My whiteboys!鈥

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He scrapped with the whiteboys on Yoakum.

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White鈥瞓oy, a member of an association of Irish peasants first formed in County Tipperary about 1761鈥攚earing white shirts鈥攍ong noted for agrarian outrages; White鈥瞓oyism, the principles of the Whiteboys; White鈥-brass, an alloy of copper and zinc.鈥攁dj.

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This horrid feat they accomplished, secure from interruption, in the briary depths of the ravine, and while the main body of the pack were industriously tow-rowing up and down the stream after their lawful fox, a couple of goats were only saved from "The Whiteboys" by miracles of agility and courage on the part of the countrymen.

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The best that could be said for them was that, "linking one virtue to a thousand crimes," whenever the hounds got fairly out of covert, the Whiteboys were together, and were in front.

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