(n.) A small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade.
(n.) A small flag for marking the stations in surveying.
Example Sentences:
Fanon
Definition:
(n.) A term applied to various articles, as: (a) A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple.
Example Sentences:
(1) The continent is shaped like a gun, philosopher Frantz Fanon observed, and Congo is the trigger.
(2) (If this concept is confusing, I suggest reading Franz Fanon .)
(3) But Tehran's tech-savvy are far from Frantz Fanon 's lumpenproletariat.
(4) Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, educated in France, and, after psychiatric training, administered a psychiatric hospital in Algeria.
(5) Fanon became a spokesman for third-world denizens of all nations by describing in sensitive, clinically astute terms the psychology of racism and its untoward effects upon oppressor and oppressed.
(6) In his book, The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961 at the height of the triumphant years of the liberation of the countries of the continent from colonial rule, the great revolutionary and thinker Frantz Fanon observed about the raging political rhetoric of African unity: "We may understand why keen-witted international observers have hardly taken seriously the great flights of oratory about African unity, for it is true that there are so many cracks in that unity visible to the naked eye that it is only reasonable to insist that all these contradictions ought to be resolved before the day of unity can come."
(7) With Dr. Fanon's premature death at the age of 37 in 1961, the world was deprived of one of the most eloquent and skilled spokesmen for those who are oppressed by the pro-white, anti-black paranoia which is racism.
(8) It is as if Africa's proud history of liberation, from Patrice Lumumba to Nelson Mandela, is consigned to oblivion by a new master's black colonial elite – whose "historic mission", warned Frantz Fanon half a century ago, is the subjugation of their own people in the cause of "a capitalism rampant though camouflaged ".
(9) Still, she notes, it did not seem the kind of environment they could function in: “No one was saying we should move our headquarters to Pyongyang.” Bloom suggests that overall there was probably more interest in Mao’s Little Red Book and Frantz Fanon’s work.