Fronde
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Fronde
C18: from French, literally: sling, the insurgent parliamentarians being likened to naughty schoolboys using slings
Example Sentences
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Party feeling ran high at the exiled Court, which, with the suppression of the first rebellion of the Fronde, took shape again.
From Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes
The Fronde as a civil war was now over.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
This is one of the most serious souvenirs of the wars of the Fronde.
From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Arvede Barine
Under the Fronde her salon became a meeting place for the disaffected, and Mazarin is said to have sent to arrest her when she suddenly died.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
The other kind resorted to the methods of the Fronde; they made war by pin-pricks, by bursts of laughter, with all the resources of French gayety and wit.
From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Frederic Taber Cooper
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