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Loco-Focos
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
The name, which denotes lucifer-matches, given to an ultra-democratic or radical party in the United States because at a meeting when on one occasion the lights were extinguished the matches which they carried were drawn and the lamps lit again.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Loco-Focos'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/l/loco-focos.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.