muscadin
noun
a person with monarchical sympathies during the French Revolution, especially from 1794 to 1796.
muscadins
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pluralof muscadin.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
"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 John Durand
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 Francis W. Blagdon
