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
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
"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 John Oxenham
