maquisard

[mak-ee-zahrd, ma-kee-zar]

noun

plural

maquisards 

1. maquis.

Word History and Origins

Origin of maquisard¹

From French; maquis, -ard

Example Sentences

A child might well wonder: What is “the Vichy government”? The difference between “internment” and “concentration camps”? A “maquisard”? A glossary supplies some answers, but that’s not where they belong.

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“Of course, it was impossible for him to accept” such an assignment, she said, and he became a maquisard, as rural anti-Nazi resistance fighters were known.

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But like it or not, he is the ultimate maquisard: blazing the most distinctly moderate, pro-business, reformist trail in a party in which all of those epithets are in question.

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“Maquisard,” created by New York University students, invites players to be a nosy lobby boy at the Grand Budapest Hotel and solve a mystery.

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Visually, Maquisard is just affected enough to be charming for its 30-minute playthrough time.

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