kaiserlick
French
editEtymology
editFrom German kaiserlich (“imperial”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkaiserlick m (plural kaiserlicks)
- (historical military slang) an Austrian soldier during the French Revolution
- 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 1, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 3:
- 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.