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patriotic

/peɪ.tɹiˈɑ.tɪk/ noun C2
  1. A postage stamp, Civil War token, etc. bearing a patriotic design.

Plural patriotics

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Arthur was the most single-minded, chivalrous, patriotic man upon earth.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 18 · B2
Villefort dictated a petition, in which, from an excellent intention, no doubt, Dantès’ patriotic services were exaggerated, and he was made out one of the most active agents of Napoleon’s return.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 124 · C1
‘Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable—’”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 16 · B2
I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 1 · B2

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