Definitions
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- noun an extreme bellicose nationalist
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Examples
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[Illustration: Showing the type of literature peddled by patrioteer Harry A. Jung.]
Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare John L. Spivak
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Even the literary monthlies have stood clear of it; it is important only as material for that treatise upon the patrioteer and his bawling which remains to be written.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
whichbe commented on the word patrioteer
An insincere, misguided, or false patriot, flag-waver. Lapel-pins anyone?
May 12, 2008