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

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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carmagnole carmagnoles

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

Then that curst carmagnole, auld Satan, Watches like baudrons by a ratton Our sinfu' saul to get a claut on, Wi'felon ire; Syne, whip! his tail ye'll ne'er cast saut on, He's aff like fire.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

A muscular man in a carmagnole swinging a formidable axe pushed forward and the others fell back at his rough order.

From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)

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 Heine, Heinrich

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 Hawthorne, Julian

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 Leland, Charles Godfrey

"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 Oxenham, John

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 Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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 Shaw, Bernard