bonnet rouge
Americannoun
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bonnets rouges
plural
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a red liberty cap, worn by extremists during the French Revolution.
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an extremist or radical.
noun
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a red cap worn by ardent supporters of the French Revolution
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an extremist or revolutionary
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Etymology
Origin of bonnet rouge
literally: red cap
Example Sentences
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His riff on red asked if the colour of revolution was inspired by blood or by fire, and took in the bonnet rouge of the French Revolution, Garibaldi, Uruguayan butchers, bullfighters and Buddhism.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2017
I may add that I saw but one bonnet rouge, which I had supposed would be the revolutionary headdress.
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Latimer
In his early life he had been an advocate of the French Revolution, an associate of Price, Priestley, Godwin, and Tom Paine, a wearer of white cockade and bonnet rouge.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
The king made a signal to one of his grenadiers to hand him the bonnet rouge, and smiling, he put it on his head; and then arose shouts of Vive le Roi!
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
A ship with the tricolor moved up with the flood, a bonnet rouge at the masthead, as was common.
From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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