gilet jaune
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French gilet jaune.
Noun edit
gilet jaune (plural gilets jaunes)
- (usually in the plural) A yellow vest, a member of a French protest movement which started in 2018.
- 2023 November 17, Oliver Haynes, “Five years on, the world is failing to learn the gilets jaunes’ lesson about class and climate”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- French protests are always lively, but as the journalist John Lichfield observed, “the white-hot anger” of the gilets jaunes was “something new and different”.
French edit
Alternative forms edit
- Gilet jaune (member of protest movement)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gilet jaune m (plural gilets jaunes)
- yellow high-visibility safety vest
- Synonyms: gilet de haute visibilité, gilet de sécurité
- Hyponym: EPI
- (by extension, informal, metonymically) motorway patroller, who wears such a vest
- Synonym: homme en jaune
- (by extension, France, metonymically) a member of a French protest movement which started in late 2018 against rising fuel prices; members of the movement wore such vests
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:gilet jaune.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gilet, jaune.
Coordinate terms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: gilet jaune, → yellow vest (calque), → yellow jacket (calque)
See also edit
- bonnet rouge (literally “red cap”)