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Putschist

Putschist

See also: putschist

German

Noun

Putschist m (genitive Putschisten, plural Putschisten, feminine Putschistin)

  1. coupist (one taking part in a putsch / coup d'état)

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putschist

putschist

See also: Putschist

English

Noun

putschist (plural putschists)

  1. One who participates in a putsch. [from 19th c.]
    • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 150:
      The Forum itself would always, henceforth, wield a strange kind of mesmeric fascination upon the mob demagogue or would-be putschist.

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