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swastika|ˈswɒstɪkə, formerly ˈswæstɪkə|
Also svast-, -ica.
[Skr. svastika, f. svastí well-being, fortune, luck, f. sú good + astí being (f. as to be).]
1. A primitive symbol or ornament of the form of a cross with equal arms with a limb of the same length projecting at right angles from the end of each arm, all in the same direction and (usually) clockwise; also called gammadion and fylfot. Also attrib.
1871Alabaster Wheel of Law 249 On the great toe is the Trisul. On each side of the others a Swastika. 1882E. C. Robertson in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club IX. No. 3. 516 In Japan..the cross-like symbol of the sun, the Swastica, is put on coffins. 1895Reliquary Oct. 252 The use of the Swastica cross in mediaeval times. 1904Times 27 Aug. 10/3 [In Tibet] a few white, straitened hovels in tiers... On the door of each is a kicking swastika in white, and over it a rude daub of ball and crescent.
2. a. This symbol (with clockwise projecting limbs) used as the emblem of the German (and other) Nazi parties; = Hakenkreuz, hakenkreuz. Also, a flag bearing this emblem.
1932‘Nordicus’ Hitlerism ii. 17 Thousands flocked to his standard—the ‘Hakenkreuz’—(swastika), the ancient anti-semitic cross in a color scheme of red-white-black in memory of the colors of the old army. 1933[see Aryan a. 2]. 1941G. Ziemer Educ. for Death i. 4 A squad of Nazi youngsters in..brown shirts decorated with swastikas. Ibid. ii. 30 A luxury hotel managed by a Jew... The swastika over it fluttered gaily. 1951L. Hagen Follow my Leader i. 6 Most of the men in my Sturm wore at least part of a uniform, and all I could do was wear a swastika armlet. Ibid. vii. 266 Our compatriots..clung to their German ways and..flew the swastika on our national holidays. 1967T. Gunn Touch 15 A silk tent of swastikas. 1977E. Heath Travels iv. 113 Along this street had stretched the Nazi columns... Gone, now, were the crowds and the bright-red banners flaunting their swastikas over the streets. 1979J. Burmeister Glory Hunters i. 5 In addition to her national flag she [sc. a ship] also flew the Swastika.
b. attrib. and Comb.
1934Ann. Reg. 1933 i. 179 Minor acts of defiance towards the Austrian Government..such as..the lighting of Swastika fires and the daring hoisting of forbidden Swastika banners under the eyes of the police..and the hoisting of Swastika flags. 1940H. G. Wells All Aboard for Ararat iv. 101 As regards the olive branch incident, it is to be noted that the leaves were blood-stained and tied with a swastika ribbon. 1946J. Flanner in New Yorker 5 Jan. 46/1 Ten years ago, he [sc. Goering] was baying ‘Heil’ as he strutted the swastika-hung streets. 1957T. Gunn Sense of Movement 36 The swastika-draped bed. 1960Jewish Chronicle 8 Apr. 14/3 The recent swastika-daubings in this country.
Hence ˈswastika'd a., decorated with or wearing a swastika, esp. as a badge of Nazism.
1965New Statesman 15 Oct. 552/3 Buckley has..described the American Nazi Party as ‘two dozen swastika-ed cretins who go about plying their pathology in the fever-swamps of the crazy-Right’. 1969Listener 14 Aug. 225/3 Where do those swastika'd Hell's Angels types fit in? |