carmagnole
Americannoun
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carmagnoles
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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
Some were dressed in coat, flapped waistcoat and breeches, as in olden days, others in the carmagnole and striped trousers of the sansculottes.
From The Gods are Athirst by Emilie Jackson
Revolution, sansculottes, assignats, carmagnole, unpowdered hair—the Batavians were willing to stand for almost anything, but not one iota of provincial sovereignty must be sacrificed.
From The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Your Citizen, who would be fashionable, walks abroad, with his Wife on his arm, in red wool nightcap, black shag spencer, and carmagnole complete.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
Her throne occupied the place of the altar; her supporters were chiefly drunken soldiers, smoking their pipe; and before her, were a set of half-naked vagabonds, singing and dancing the carmagnole.
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Francis W. Blagdon
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 Thomas Carlyle
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 G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
I saw carmagnoles in which men and women, seized by a wild impulse, whirled along the street in a frantic dance to any chance music, compelling every bystander to join.
From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland
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 Emilie Jackson
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