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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Eng. Politics) A league of both sexes among the Conservatives, founded in 1883. So called because
primrose was (erroneously, it is said) taken to be the favorite flower of the Conservative statesman Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.
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