kaiserlick
French edit
Etymology edit
From German kaiserlich (“imperial”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kaiserlick m (plural kaiserlicks)
- (military slang) an Austrian soldier during the French Revolution
- 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, I.3.i:
- Deux ou trois de ces colonnes avaient disparu dans les feux de ces bivouacs et avaient chauffé les larges mains des kaiserlicks.
- Two or three of these columns had disappeared in the fires of these camps, and had warmed the large hands of the kaiserlicks.
Further reading edit
- “kaiserlick”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.