muscadin

American  

[muhs-kuh-din, my-skah-dan] / ˈmʌs kə dɪn, mü skɑˈdɛ̃ /

noun

muscadins plural

1. a person with monarchical sympathies during the French Revolution, especially from 1794 to 1796.

2. a French fop or dandy of this period.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• muscadins
  plural

Etymology

Origin of muscadin

1785–95; < French: dandy, fop, literally, lozenge containing musk (used by such dandies) < Italian moscardino, derivative (with -ardino; see -ard, -in ¹) of moscado, moscato, equivalent to mosc- (< Late Latin; see musk) + -ato -ate ¹

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

muscadin muscadins

He shouts to one of them, "You are a muscadin!"

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by Durand, John

Dissolve two companies, one the grenadiers and the other the infantry who are very muscadin and too fond of processions....

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by Durand, John

But he was awake, and he sat up promptly when the young muscadin from Paris was roughly thrust into his room by the soldiers.

From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Sabatini, Rafael

France’s first postaristocratic dandies, the muscadins, Mr. Andersson tells us, were “foppishly dressed anti-Terror shopkeepers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

This attracting the muscadins in great numbers, not long since obtained for that part of the Boulevard the appellation of Petit Coblentz.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

"By muscadins is meant all citizens of that age not married, and exercising no useful profession," in other words, those who live on their income.

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by Durand, John