(n.) One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seven more were charged in the US and four more, including the former Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer, pleaded guilty.
(2) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
(3) The flagship West London Free School, which was set up by journalist Toby Young, for example, insists parents buy school blazers priced from £37.50, jumpers from £19, ties at £4.80 and bags from £16, from approved supplier Billings & Edmonds.
(4) Playing with what one imagines to be a huge chip on his shoulder, Aldridge put up a career-high 44 points, and the Trail Blazers beat the Nuggets 110-105 .
(5) He is extremely keen to use Scotland as trail-blazer for the pure residence charge,” reported Letwin.
(6) Chandler Parsons scored on a reverse layup with 0.9 seconds left to give Houston the lead but there was just enough time for Lillard to hit a 3 that will go down in Blazers folklore.
(7) The plea bargain agreement reveals that Blazer, who was general secretary of the North and Central American Concacaf governing body, began providing information to the authorities in December 2011 – more than three years before the US government charged 14 current and former Fifa officials with “hijacking” international football to run “a World Cup of fraud” to line their pockets by $150m.
(8) That document showed that Warner was the recipient of the bribe referred to by Blazer in his testimony, relating to Morrocco’s failed bid for the 1998 World Cup.
(9) The Portland Trail Blazers' phenomenal run to start the season was partly based on a series of late victories in close games, a run that seemed unsustainable even at the time.
(10) But Fifa's blazered functionaries are already talking about the possibility of holding the 2010 tournament in two African countries.
(11) The following day, according to Warner’s authorised biography, he started his campaign for the Concacaf presidency with the help of the American administrator Chuck Blazer and, later, Havelange.
(12) Blazer had risen to the top of what was rapidly becoming one of the most popular sports in America, and was living the high life in nearby Trump tower, where he kept two apartments: one for him; and one reputedly for his cats.
(13) Yes, Bryant's return should help the Lakers remain competitive for the next two-plus seasons, but it's hard to see them coming out of a crowded Western Conference where they would have to leapfrog the Oklahoma City Thunder, San Antonio Spurs, Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets and even, it seems now, the Portland Trail Blazers.
(14) "The weather dictates," says Jeremy Langmead, editor-in-chief of Mr Porter , but ideally he'll wear "a relaxed combo of brightly coloured trousers – Jil Sander green, Band of Outsiders yellow – with grey T-shirts and unstructured blue blazers".
(15) Because the Trail Blazers didn't make many major moves during the offseason, they started the season as an afterthought in the incredibly competitive Western Conference and their early success provoked more skepticism than accolades.
(16) A Tory government would champion school uniforms, including blazers and ties, setting by ability and traditional subject-based classes.
(17) But after being mauled in the media for sartorial crimes – including a bright pink blazer and white shirt adorned with heart motifs – Hatoyama will be buoyed by the news that a Shanghai-based shirt-maker is selling copies of his most infamous garment as a tribute to his "individuality" .
(18) The charge of failing to declare a foreign bank account relates to money Blazer held during 2010 at First Caribbean International Bank, in the Bahamas.
(19) Although the Portland Trail Blazers' early season success didn't quite earn them respect from their doubters , it helps them a bit to have a win streak that ties them with the perennially successful Spurs.
(20) It dressed Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earheart and Katharine Hepburn, sold guns to Ernest Hemingway and blazers to JFK.
Redcoat
Definition:
(n.) One who wears a red coat; specifically, a red-coated British soldier.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Savage is every Friday and Saturday at Metropolis Studios, London, from 4 March (tickets £5), savagedisco.com The Mighty Hoop-la Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skewering the type of weekender you’d usually associate with Butlins (Redcoats, awkward cabaret, warring families), The Mighty Hoop-la has gathered many of the best alternative club nights – including those on this list, except Torture Garden, Hip Hop Karaoke and Savage – and performance troupes for a festival dedicated to high camp, high energy and high-concept fun.
(2) Where is Shakespeare in all this – is he redcoat or rebel?
(3) In contrast with Breaking Bad's murderous drug kingpin and Mad Men's philandering ad executive, Woodhull is a good man who, in 1778, becomes a spy in order to help George Washington defeat the dastardly British redcoats.
(4) Even the redcoats struggled to raise spirits in the main hall and at the fringe; with just eight MPs and only a handful of recognisable big names, the same people kept popping up to say much the same thing as before at different events throughout the day.
(5) His work continued to be republished intermittently up to the age of the Beatles' first LP, when the redcoat tunics he so much admired were sold as ironic clouts in Carnaby Street.
(6) One piece I watch in the packed theatre is based on a classic piece of north Indian folk theatre, poking fun at a clownish British redcoat who attempts to have his wicked way with a local girl.
(7) Headteacher, Sir John Cass Foundation and Redcoat Church of England Secondary School, Tower Hamlets, London.
(8) In the preface to the book (written in Salem after the Hawthornes had been evicted by Emerson for back rent), Hawthorne wrote with exquisite beauty and feeling of the place as a shrine of half-ruined memories and mute witnesses; not just redcoats and minutemen, but also the Indians who had occupied the land before the affray.