Etymograph

English

Ribbonism

From ribbon + -ism, from the green badge they wore.

Formed from ribbon + -ism

Old French riban

Middle English riban

English ribbon

Today it means

name A 19th-century popular movement of Catholics in Ireland, active against landlords and their agents, and opposed to the ideology of the Protestant Orange Order.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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