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Stars and Stripes

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Stars and Stripes
nickname for the U.S. flag. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 8567]
See : America


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Ah, I thought so--" as the Stars and Stripes fluttered to the mast-head.
On the one were the Stars and Stripes, on the other the Shamrock and Thistle.
And when, again upon the shore, we turned and saw from the vessel's mast her name signalled in flags of joyous colours, and fluttering by their side the beautiful American banner with its stars and stripes, - the long three thousand miles and more, and, longer still, the six whole months of absence, so dwindled and faded, that the ship had gone out and come home again, and it was broad spring already in the Coburg Dock at Liverpool.
 
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