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Webster 1913 Edition
Camisard
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Cam′i-sard
,Noun.
[F.]
One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; – so called from the peasant’s smock (camise) which they wore.
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Camisard
Camisard
English
Noun
Camisard (plural Camisards)
- (historical) One of the French Protestants of the Cevennes region of south-central France, who raised an insurrection against the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.