Baton
Baton noun - A heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment.
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Fasces and baton are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Fasces" with "Baton", this nouns are similar.
Nearby Word: batoned
Fasces
Fasces noun - Bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade protruding; in ancient Rome it was a symbol of a magistrate's power; in modern Italy it is a symbol of fascism.
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The Vichy régime in France instead of the republican fasces used a francisca as its symbol: a double-headed axe with red-white-and-blue blades and a marshal's baton as its handle.
Source: An Axe to Grind - The fasces have also been used as an official emblem of the French Republic from the first French Revolution to the present (strangely enough, Vichy France replaced the Republican fasces in favour of their own francisca - a double-headed axe with Marshal Petain's baton for its handle).
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