tocsin
(en)
an alarm bell or signal (from Old French)
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tocsin
that the slaveholders’ rebellion was to sound the tocsin for a general holy war of property against labor
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8 months, 2 weeks ago
"Sad" became the tocsin ringing through the piece, sadness as the consequence of too much plenty:
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9 years, 5 months ago
the American war of independence sounded the tocsin for the European middle class
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8 years, 7 months ago