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Jacquerie

[ zhahkuh-ree ]

noun

  1. the revolt of the peasants of northern France against the nobles in 1358.
  2. (lowercase) any peasant revolt.


Jacquerie

/ ʒakri /

noun

  1. the revolt of the N French peasants against the nobility in 1358
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Jacquerie1

< French, Middle French, equivalent to jaque ( s ) peasant (after Jacques, a name thought to be typical of peasants) + -rie -ry
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Jacquerie1

C16: from Old French: the peasantry, from jacque a peasant, from Jacques James, from Late Latin Jacōbus
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Example Sentences

This, combined with the soaring fiscal burden of near-constant war, set off a series of uprisings, most notably the French Jacquerie of 1358 and the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381.

From Salon

Here a leader of the Jacquerie had been writhing in his chains, as he was crowned with a red-hot tripod.

Writing in the Telegraph, he compared Eurosceptic parties, including Ukip, Dutch rightwing firebrands and Greek anti-capitalists, to people taking part in "a kind of peasants' revolt" or a "jacquerie" – a bloody uprising against the French nobility in 1358.

It was doubtless the mingled despair and thirst for revenge excited by this that led to many Waldenses joining in the rising of the Jacquerie in Savoy in 1365—a rising which was suppressed with the customary merciless cruelty by the King of Navarre and Wenzel of Brabant.

"But," I cried aghast, "do you fear a Jacquerie?"

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