Camisard
English
editEtymology
editFrench, from the peasant's smock or camise which they wore.
Noun
editCamisard (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.