Camisard
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English
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Etymology
[edit]French, from the peasant's smock or camise which they wore.
Noun
[edit]Camisard (plural Camisards)
- (historical) One of the Huguenots of the Cévennes region of south-central France, who rose up against the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
References
[edit]- “Camisard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.