Cagoulard

American  

[kag-oo-lahr, kag-oo-lahr, ka-goo-lahr] / ˈkæg ʊˌlɑr, ˌkæg ʊˈlɑr, ka guˈlɑr /

noun

• Cagoulards
  plural

1. a member of a secret French organization, active 1932–40, that conspired to overthrow the Third Republic.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Cagoulards
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Cagoulard

< French, equivalent to cagoule hood ( see cowl) + -ard -ard

Example Sentences

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Cagoulard Cagoulards

He trails a faint odor of Cagoulard, the Royalist-Fascist secret society of unsavory name in the latter days of the Third Republic.

From Time Magazine Archive

As Minister of the Interior following the war, Mitterrand tried to get some of the Cagoulards out of jail.

From Time Magazine Archive

The General is one of the military heads of the Cagoulards and frequently met with Baron de Potters.

From Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by Spivak, John L.

Those conversations which I quote directly came from people who were present when they occurred or, as in the case of the Cagoulards in France, from official records.

From Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by Spivak, John L.

Great Britain, however, planning to establish a four-cornered pact between England, France, Germany and Italy, brought pressure to bear upon France to suppress further disclosures about the Cagoulards.

From Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by Spivak, John L.

At the top of the Cagoulards is a Supreme War Council or General Staff whose members have not been disclosed.

From Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by Spivak, John L.