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BOSTON TEA PARTY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor; organized as a protest against taxes on tea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
demonstration; manifestation (a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature))
Domain category:
history (the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings)
Domain region:
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
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