Stars and Bars

Stars and Bars

Stars and Bars the first national flag of the Confederate States of America, the design of which was proposed by Professor Nicola Marschall and adopted by the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States on March 4, 1861. The Stars and Bars resembled somewhat the national flag of the United States. It had a blue canton with seven white stars, one for each state then part of the Confederacy, and three horizontal stripes, the top and bottom ones red and the middle one white.

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Stars and Bars

Stars and Bars • pl. n. [treated as sing.] hist. the flag of the Confederate States of America. It had a horizontal white stripe between two red stripes, and in the upper left corner was a blue field with a circle of seven white stars, one for each of the original seven seceded states.

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Stars and Bars

Stars and Barsaides-mémoires, Lamaze, Lars, Mars, parse, Paz, Stars and Bars, vase, vichyssoise

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