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Sicilian Vespers
noun
- a general massacre of the French in Sicily by the local population, begun at the sound of the vesper bell on Easter Monday, 1282.
Sicilian Vespers
noun
- functioning as singular a revolt in 1282 against French rule in Sicily, in which the ringing of the vesper bells on Easter Monday served as the signal to massacre and drive out the French
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Then we have the dominion of the French, ending with the Sicilian Vespers, and the death of eight thousand of them.
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The Scots, to whose influence every untoward occurrence was imputed, were threatened with a repetition of the Sicilian Vespers.
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If the massacre called the Sicilian Vespers had been infernal, it would have been going on now!
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It is a pendant, of course quite unhistorical, to one of the traditions of the Sicilian Vespers.
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But even more than the Sicilian Vespers, it was the unpremeditated, irresistible act of a people sick of being slaves.
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