carmagnole
noun
a dance and song popular during the French Revolution.
carmagnoles
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pluralof carmagnole.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
The Sufferings of the Sane The mental distress of living amid the obscene din of all these carmagnoles and corobberies was not the only burden that lay on sane people during the war.
From Heartbreak House by Bernard Shaw
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
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
