Bristlers

Meaning

Noun

  • A group of German refugees with Marxist leanings in 1849 who scattered to Switzerland, France and England.

Origin

  • A calque of German Bürstenheimer, coined by Abt (secretary to the Bishop of Freiburg) and applied to the Workers' Educational Association in Geneva.

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