Communard
noun
a member or supporter of the Commune of 1871.
Communard
American
[kom-yuh-nahrd]
/ ˈkɒm jəˌnɑrd /
noun
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(often lowercase) a member or supporter of the Commune of 1871.
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(lowercase) a person who lives in a commune.
Communard
1
British
/ ˈkɒmjʊˌnɑːd /
noun
communard
2
British
/ ˈkɒmjʊˌnɑːd /
noun
Etymology
Origin of Communard
From French, dating back to 1870–75; see origin at commune 2, -ard
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Less successful than Hamza, the former Communard was the second celebrity to be voted off that year.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2022
He also notes that fear played a large role among those Parisians who helped the Versaillais, especially as exaggerated rumors circulated about Communard killing and destruction.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2015
What united the Communard front wasn’t economic theory, or even socialism; it was anti-clericalism.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014
But parallel stories about a Communard pétroleuse being caught with fuse lines in her pocket are rejected, perhaps rightly, as incredible.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014
The Communard chiefs were revolutionaries of every sect, who, disagreeing on governmental and economic principles, were united in their vague but perpetual hostility to the existing order of things.
From British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by J. Ellis Barker
Albert is more concerned about the approaching apocalypse, prophesied by fellow communard Marina, who has imbibed the Mayan calendar's stark predictions, backed up by astronomical evidence of an impending galactic catastrophe.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2011
Years later, in an interview with the Chicago Tribune, an early communard recalled the decidedly counter-countercultural aspects of the region where they had settled and compared their arrival to “a spaceship landing in Tennessee.”
From Washington Post
Some members of Parliament may applaud the idea of the Princess as communard: perhaps she can be persuaded to surrender some of her $70,000-a-year state allowance.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a transient arrives looking for a place to crash," says one communard, "we send him to a motel.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1871 among the communard chiefs were revolutionaries of every sect, who, disagreeing on governmental and economic principles, were united in their vague but perpetual hostility to the existing order of things.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
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