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Junker   /dʒˈəŋkər/   Listen
Junker

noun
1.
Member of the Prussian aristocracy noted especially for militarism.





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... somehow that the Crusaders were migrating for food like swallows; or that the French Revolutionists were somehow only swarming like bees. This works in two ways often accounted opposite; and explains both the German Socialist and the Junker. For, first, it fits in with Teutonic Imperialism; making the "blonde beasts" of Germania into lions whose nature it is to eat such lambs as the French. The highest success of this notion in Europe is marked by praise given to a race famous for its physical firmness and ...
— The Crimes of England • G.K. Chesterton


Words linked to "Junker" :   Prussian


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