Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Primrose League

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Primrose League


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A league of both sexes among the Conservatives, founded in 1883. So called because primrose was (erroneously, it is said) taken to be the favorite flower of the Conservative statesman Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.