carmagnole

American  

[kahr-muhn-yohl, kar-ma-nyawl] / ˌkɑr mənˈjoʊl, kar maˈnjɔl /

noun

• carmagnoles
  plural

1. a dance and song popular during the French Revolution.

2. a man's loose jacket with wide lapels and metal buttons, worn during the French Revolution.

3. the costume of the French revolutionists, consisting chiefly of this jacket, black pantaloons, and a red liberty cap.

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carmagnole British  

/ ˌkɑːmənˈjəʊl, karmaɲɔl /

noun

1. a dance and song popular during the French Revolution

2. 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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• carmagnoles
  plural

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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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Example Sentences

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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

But, in truth, the tree was too lofty to have a red cap placed on its top, or a carmagnole danced beneath it.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine

It was a French Revolution in miniature; we danced the carmagnole in the kitchen and were prepared to conquer the Samoan social world.

From Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb

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

Meanwhile, on the road from Paris to Cherbourg, a young man, dressed in the inevitable brown carmagnole of those days, was plodding his way toward Carentan.

From Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories by Julian Hawthorne

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

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

"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

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