carmagnole
Americannoun
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a dance and song popular during the French Revolution.
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a man's loose jacket with wide lapels and metal buttons, worn during the French Revolution.
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the costume of the French revolutionists, consisting chiefly of this jacket, black pantaloons, and a red liberty cap.
noun
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a dance and song popular during the French Revolution
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the costume worn by many French Revolutionaries, consisting of a short jacket with wide lapels, black trousers, a red liberty cap, and a tricoloured sash
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Etymology
Origin of carmagnole
1790–1800; < French, after the name of a ceremonial jacket worn by peasants of Dauphiné and Savoy, named after Carmagnola, town in Piedmont, Italy
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It is as if two cultures, both of them oddly brandishing the same banner, were arrayed in some 18th century battle painting, the young whirling in defiant rock carmagnole against the panoplied Silent Majority.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Salute the President of the Commune, you——" Before him was a short man in carmagnole and sabre, whom the other prisoners eyed with resentment and alarm.
From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)
He was thinking out a design,—for a sansculotte, in red cap and carmagnole, who was to supersede the discredited knave of spades in his pack of cards.
From The Gods are Athirst by Jackson, Emilie
A muscular man in a carmagnole swinging a formidable axe pushed forward and the others fell back at his rough order.
From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)
The face of Jesuit Morlet was still, as always, calm and sardonic; he wore a carmagnole jacket and red bonnet.
From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Sue, Eug?ne
And along with the war on the tube came the rest of the theater of the '60s: riots, assassinations, the antiwar moratoriums, the Yippies' carmagnoles, the circus of the counterculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
Duke Brunswick is not dancing carmagnoles, but has his drill serjeants busy.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Massacres and carmagnoles did not strike the typical Massachusetts merchant as the methods by which God-fearing men should protest against oppression.
From A History of the United States by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
"You see," said Graeme, "I happen to have been making some enquiries from a legal friend on that very point——" "Oh!" said Margaret, and Miss Penny's eyes danced carmagnoles.
From Pearl of Pearl Island by Oxenham, John
Gamelin, once a regular attendant at the sittings of the Cordeliers, did not find at the Jacobins the familiar sabots, carmagnoles and rallying cries of the Dantonists.
From The Gods are Athirst by Jackson, Emilie
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