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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The political policy and methods represented in France by General Georges Ernest Jean Marie Boulanger (1837-91) from about 1886 to 1889. Its chief features were militarism and revenge upon Germany.
  • noun The political policy and methods represented in France by General Georges Ernest Jean Marie Boulanger (1837–91) from about 1886 to 1889. Its chief features were militarism and revenge upon Germany.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The spirit or principles of a French political movement identified with Gen. Georges Boulanger (d. 1891), whose militarism and advocacy of revenge on Germany attracted to him a miscellaneous party of monarchists and Republican malcontents.

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