Orangeman

(-mən)

noun pl. Orangemen

a member of a secret Protestant society organized in Northern Ireland (1795)

Origin: after the Prince of Orange, later William III

See Orangeman in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A member of a secret society founded in Northern Ireland in 1795 to maintain the political and religious ascendancy of Protestantism.
  2. A Protestant Irishman.

Origin:

Origin: After William, Prince of Orange, later King William III of England, Scotland, and Ireland

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