Tory party

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the Tories (def. 2) as a political group.

See: Tory ((n.))(def. 2)

Quotations

1832

Why is he Sheriff of New-Castle District, and a pampered meanial of the Tory party?

1836

"They have two parties here, the Tory party and the opposition party, and both on 'em run to extremes."

1963

This firm stand [in 1849] stopped the rot completely in the Tory party. . . .