Montagnard

[mon-tuh n-yahrd, -yahr]

noun, plural Mon·ta·gnards, (especially collectively) Mon·ta·gnard.

(sometimes lowercase) a member of a dark-skinned people of mixed ethnic origins inhabiting the highland areas of Vietnam.

Origin of Montagnard

1835–45; < French: literally, mountaineer. See mountain, -ard

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Historical Examples of montagnard

A Montagnard exclaimed, "He is choking with the blood of Danton."
Lectures on the French Revolution
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Probably it is in a country where the language would be the Montagnard.
Notes and Queries, Number 239, May 27, 1854
Various
The young artillery commander was considered by all at Nice to be a pronounced (p. 242) "Montagnard," that is, an extreme Jacobin.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
William Milligan Sloane
Each Montagnard is a Jupiter in his own conceit, and hurls his thunderbolt with what force he may.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 401, March 1849
Various

British Dictionary definitions for montagnard

Montagnard

noun plural -gnards or -gnard

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

Word Origin for Montagnard

C19: from French: mountaineer, from montagne mountain

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Word Origin and History for montagnard

"mountaineer, highlander," 1842, from French montagnard, from montagne (12c., see mountain).