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单词 rebecca riot
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Rebecca riot
General attributive, esp. in Rebecca gang, Rebecca riot.
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1843 Times 22 June 5/5 (heading) Rebecca riots.
1843 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 26 Oct. 1/6 On Monday last Jones, the Llandovery police officer,..arrested one of the principal leaders of the Rebecca gang.
1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times xiii An odd feature of the time was the outbreak of what were called the Rebecca riots in Wales.
1951 M. Kennedy Lucy Carmichael vi. 312 ‘It's the Rebeccas!.. The Rebeccas, they had black faces...’ Rebeka riots? Men dressed as women? What wind from the past was this?
1965 Times 10 Mar. 16/6 I never knew the Rebecca gangs of the Welsh marches..a roistering mob, of men, women, and children, perhaps 50 strong..and led by a man in woman's clothes, who..now roamed the river with dogs barking, guns banging, and torches flaring to harry the spawning salmon of the Wye or Irfon.
1989 D. J. V. Jones Rebecca's Children vi Rebecca gangs were involved in moral, religious, and marriage conflicts, attacks on tax and excise officers, and battles over market tolls, the sale of alcohol, and many other matters.
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