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yellow badge en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, historical) A cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public, especially in Nazi-controlled states during the 1930s and 1940s.
   • He might make us, like the Jews, wear yellow badges […] 1663, Giles Oldisworth, The Stone Rolled Away, and Life More Abundant: An Apologie Urging Self-denyal, New-Obedience, Faith, and Thankfulneſſe, London: Thomas Ratcliffe, page 425:

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Synonyms

yellow patch · Jewish badge

Translations (15)

dsb žydojska gwězda (cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public) · uk жовта зірка (cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public) · ru жёлтая звезда́ (cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public) · es insignia amarilla (cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public) · hu sárga csillag (cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public) · es estrella amarilla (cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public) · da jødestjerne (cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public) · fi keltainen daavidintähti (cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public) · fr étoile jaune (cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public) · de Judenstern (cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public) · uk лата (cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public) · pl żółta gwiazda (cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public) · hsb židowska hwězda (cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public) · nl Jodenster (cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public) · ru ла́та (cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public)