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Montagnard

[ mon-tuhn-yahrd, -yahr ]

noun

, plural Mon·ta·gnards, (especially collectively) Mon·ta·gnard.
  1. (sometimes lowercase) a member of a dark-skinned people of mixed ethnic origins inhabiting the highland areas of Vietnam.


Montagnard

/ -ˈjɑː; ˌmɒntənˈjɑːd /

noun

  1. a member of a hill people living on the border between Vietnam, Laos, and NE Cambodia
  2. a member of a North American Indian people living in the N Rocky Mountains
“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 Montagnard1

1835–45; < French: literally, mountaineer. See mountain, -ard
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Montagnard1

C19: from French: mountaineer, from montagne mountain
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Example Sentences

Each Montagnard is a Jupiter in his own conceit, and hurls his thunderbolt with what force he may.

Le btail ne sauroit pturer dans de telles prairies; mais l'industrieux montagnard fait y faucher29.

Puis, Nic Deck commena grimper le long de la chane, et ce ne fut qu'un jeu pour ses muscles de montagnard.

The young artillery commander was considered by all at Nice to be a pronounced (p. 242) "Montagnard," that is, an extreme Jacobin.

Probably it is in a country where the language would be the Montagnard.

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