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Red Feathers (The)

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The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. They cut to pieces General Wayne’s brigade in the American War, and the Americans vowed to give them no quarter. So they mounted red feathers that no others might be subjected to this threat. They still wear red puggarees on Indian service. (See LacedÆmonians.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Red Button (A)
Red Cap (Mother)
Red Coats
Red Cock
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Red Cross (The)
Red Cross Knight
Red Feathers (The)
Red Flag (A)
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Red Heads
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