frondeur
noun
a rebel; rioter.
frondeur
American
[fron-dur, fr awn -dœr]
/ frɒnˈdɜr, frɔ̃ˈdœr /
noun
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frondeurs
plural
Frondeur
British
/ frɒnˈdɜː, frɔ̃dœr /
noun
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French history a member of the Fronde
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any malcontent or troublemaker
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Etymology
Origin of frondeur
1790–1800; < French: literally, a participant in the Fronde (the rebellion against royal authority during the minority of Louis XIV), equivalent to Fronde + -eur -eur
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Diana dismissed it with contempt, as the shaft of a frondeur discredited by both parties.
From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Proud, hard to work with, jealous, and irascible, he was essentially the leader of opposition, the grumbler, and the frondeur.
From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt
His temper is essentially frondeur; he has, what so few possess, absolute independence of judgment; he refuses to see through other men's spectacles, whether of smoked or of rose-coloured glass.
From Critical Studies by Ouida
And the burden of his song ran thus: A frondeur wind Got up to-day, 'Gainst Mazarin It blows, they say.
From The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes by Rafael Sabatini
By this repressive policy the frondeur spirit of the Noblesse was revived, and it has continued to exist down to the present time.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
Then, on April 25, 1897, the French newspaper Le Frondeur published Taxil's confession that Vaughan was wholly fictitious.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2020
I paid my respects to Madame de Sévigné in her box, where I found Mesdames de Villars, de Coulanges and de La Fayette, escorted by the little Abbé de Villars and de Grignau the Frondeur.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
Mademoiselle consented to part with me when she had heard all, suddenly observing, however, as she looked at Darpent: 'But, Monsieur, are you not the great Frondeur with ideas of your own?
From Stray Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge
And yet, Monsieur le Frondeur," said Mazarin gayly, "the affair which you have taken in charge must, from the king——" "With which I have been given in charge, monseigneur.
From Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas père
On my word of honor," said Athos, "one must be either a Mazarinist or a Frondeur.
From Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas père
Among the frondeurs are former finance minister Arnaud Montebourg, former education minister Benoît Hamon, and former culture minister Aurélie Filippetti of the Green party, who were sacked from the cabinet after publicly criticising the government.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2014
But then Paris was ever "in the opposition" and Parisians have ever been frondeurs.
From My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil
And these two boys are not the "frondeurs" of the Paris streets, but the highest dignitaries, of France—her king and her royal prince.
From Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Elbridge Streeter Brooks
The present generation of Muscovite frondeurs, who continue to rail against Western Europe and the pedantic officialism of St. Petersburg, are of a more modern and less academic type.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
Mr Tadpole knows all about it; he has liaisons with the frondeurs.
From Sybil, or the Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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