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
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
Shoulder-high is the injured People's-friend, crowned with an oak-garland; amid the wavy sea of red nightcaps, carmagnole jackets, grenadier bonnets and female mob-caps; far-sounding like a sea!
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
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 Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
About a dozen of them wore the republican jacket known by the name of "la carmagnole."
From The Chouans by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
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
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