5 sentences with 'badge'
Example sentences and phrases with the word badge and other words derived from it.
• « Initially a slur against heretics, the term "Protestant" was soon adopted by those followers, who wore it as a defiant badge of honour. »
• « A badge of honour for the middle classes was that the woman of the house did not have to work for wages, nor did she have to do hard work in the house if at all possible. Thus, it was believed that a servant was essential. »
• « Good hygiene became a matter of survival and a badge of class identity for the bourgeoisie, and the dirtiness inherent in manual labour was a further cause of bourgeois contempt for the working classes. »
• « In ancient Rome, the bodyguards of the Roman consuls wore "fascii" as a badge of authority over war, peace, law and death, and this symbolism appealed to Italian fascists. »
• « Such condemnable acts were carried out by members of the police force, who were known as "mazorqueros". This name originated from the fact that many of them formed part of a political club or entity, the Sociedad Popular Restauradora, which had an ear of corn as its badge. »