phalange
Speech parts
1. phalange - Noun
2. Phalange - Proper noun
Meaning
A phalanstery.
(obsolete) A phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.). [15th–17th c.]
(anatomy) A phalanx ("one of the bones of the finger or toe"). [from 17th c.]
(zoology) Any of the joints of an insect's tarsus.
(botany) A bundle of stamens joined by their filaments.
Phalange
A right-wing Lebanese paramilitary movement based somewhat on the Spanish Falange
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Concurrently, tension between Syria and Phalange increased Israeli support for the Maronite group and led to direct Israeli-Syrian exchanges in April 1981, leading to American diplomatic intervention.
As an MP for one of Lebanon's major Christian parties, the Kataeb, also known as "the Phalange", Gemayel’s call for Hezbollah to give up its weapons was in line with the national ideology of his party.
On the morning of Friday, 17 September, the Israeli Army surrounding Sabra and Shatila ordered the Phalange to halt their operation, concerned about reports of a massacre.
It was agreed that the Phalange should go into the camps.
They estimated the Phalange to be 5,000 when fully mobilized of whom 2,000 were full-time.
The news quickly circulated on social media, which has overtaken traditional news agencies, sparking uproar in Iraq, among the members of the so-called "Phalange of Babylon".