frondeur
Americannoun
plural
frondeursnoun
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French history a member of the Fronde
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any malcontent or troublemaker
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
Example Sentences
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Then, on April 25, 1897, the French newspaper Le Frondeur published Taxil's confession that Vaughan was wholly fictitious.
From Salon
Aramis resides in gorgeous chambers decorated with the souvenirs of war, drinks the most expensive wine and probably does more than just flirt with that beautiful Frondeur, the Duchesse de Longueville.
From Washington Post
At the end of January, Valls was defeated in the Socialist Party race by Benoît Hamon, a dapper frondeur, a member of a rebel faction.
From The New Yorker
Ces essais d’Oscar Wilde représentent plus particulièrement le côté paradoxal et frondeur de sa personalité.
From Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
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