Jacquerie

American  

[zhahk^uh-ree] / ʒɑkəˈri /

noun

1. the revolt of the peasants of northern France against the nobles in 1358.

2. (lowercase) any peasant revolt.

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Jacquerie British  

/ ʒakri /

noun

1. the revolt of the N French peasants against the nobility in 1358

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Etymology

Origin of Jacquerie

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

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

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

From Project Gutenberg

Time has not wiped, time never will wipe from the French memory the fear of a Jacquerie.

From Project Gutenberg

For if this Crocan rising were not a Jacquerie in name, if it were not stained as yet by the excesses which made that word a terror, it was still a peasant-rising.

From Project Gutenberg

Cressy and Poitiers; the destruction of the Spanish fleet; the plague of the Black Death; the Jacquerie rising; these are treated by the author in "St. George for England."

From Project Gutenberg