yellow badge

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yellow badge (plural yellow badges)

  2. (countable, historical) A cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public, especially in Nazi-controlled states during the 1930s and 1940s. [17th c.]
    Synonyms: Jewish badge, yellow patch
    Hyponyms: Judenstern, rouelle, yellow star
    • 1663, Giles Oldisworth, The Stone Rolled Away, and Life More Abundant: An Apologie Urging Self-denyal, New-Obedience, Faith, and Thankfulneſſe, London: Thomas Ratcliffe, page 425:
      He might make us, like the Jews, wear yellow badges […]

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