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  1. A warlike, often unthinking, patriotism, as
  2. exhibited by Nicholas Chauvin, one of
  3. Napoleon I's veterans and his fanatical
  4. admirer. In the mid-20th century the
  5. expression male chauvinism was coined to mean
  6. an assumed superiority of the male sex over
  7. the female.
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