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noun

Slogan n.

The war cry, or gathering word, of a Highland clan in Scotland.

Hence: A distinctive motto, phrase, or cry used by any person or party to express a purpose or ideal; a catchphrase; a rallying cry.

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Etymology of 'Slogan'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Slogan" Quotes from Famous Books

... that historic propaganda which is best described by its own slogan: "The East for the East—the West for the West," and all further intercourse ...

— The Lost Continent • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... and cry the slogan; Let the pibroch shake the air With its wild, triumphant music, Worthy of the freight we bear. Let the ancient hills of Scotland Hear once more the battle-song Swell within their glens and valleys As the clansmen march along! Never from the field of combat, Never ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various

... was Oscar Wilde who led the men of the now famous 'nineties toward an aesthetic freedom, to champion a beauty whose existence was its "own excuse for being." Wilde's was, in the most outspoken manner, the first use of aestheticism as a slogan; the battle-cry of the group was actually the now outworn but then revolutionary "Art for Art's sake"! And, so sick were people of the shoddy ornaments and drab ugliness of the immediate past, that the slogan won. At ...

— Modern British Poetry • Various

... before the war had to can during war days. Food was so scarce and so high in price that to buy fancy or even plain canned products was a severe strain on the average housewife's purse. The American woman, as was to be expected, came quickly and eagerly to the front with the solution and the slogan: "More gardens and more ...

— Every Step in Canning • Grace Viall Gray

... aerial steed the rein, and get all the speed possible out of the cumbersome two-seater. There was no longer any necessity for "loafing on the job," to allow a tardy moon to come in sight, as had been the case before. Home, and at top speed, was the slogan now. ...

— Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines - The German Spy's Secret • Charles Amory Beach

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