blackshirts's Usage Examples:

revolutionary period was followed by the violent reaction of the Fascist blackshirts militia and eventually by the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini in 1922.

Members wore and marched in black uniforms and were thus called "blackshirts".

the war against Ethiopia, l'Alba boasted of having two companies of blackshirts from Tunisia, "Numidie" and "Zama", at the battle-fields.

sea services The rank insignia for commissioned officers for the army, blackshirts, navy and air force; respectively.

March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's blackshirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve blackshirts.

Synonyms:

fascist;